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Civilian Conservation Corps

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), agency founded in 1933 by the U.S. Congress as part of the New Deal. The agency trained and hired unemployed men to develop and conserve natural resources through tree planting, fire-fighting, and dam construction. Congress abolished the corps in 1942.

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