TVA Power to Change Tennessee

The Tennessee Valley Authority brought the poverty stricken state of Tennessee out of the dark ages by providing employment and increases in the standards of living both through social and economic programs.

Prior to the TVA the level of poverty in the Tennessee Valley was the worst in the nation. The onset of the Great Depression added to the hardships Tennesseeans where already coping with. With an average yearly rain fall of 6ft that began in the spring and brought about devastating floods which destroyed homes and washed way valuable top soil needed to grow crops. The economic effects of the flooding meant that people had little to eat and no source of income because there where very little manufacturing jobs. Therefore they also suffered socially. Education by means of small one room school houses with one school master that taught all grades. No electricity, indoor plumbing, or adequate healthcare. Malaria was a common disease that was virtually unheard of in other parts of the country. Tennessee was socially and economically far behind the rest of the country.

In 1933 President Roosevelt New Deal policy brings a federal agency to the Tennessee Valley. Roosevelt proposes this

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