THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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deliver food to the poverty-stricken Dust Bowl residents
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build dams and generators that provided electricity to the South
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work on farms to help stabilize agriculture
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publish important facts about businesses
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Detailed explanation-1: -This act of May 18, 1933, created the Tennessee Valley Authority to oversee the construction of dams to control flooding, improve navigation, and create cheap electric power in the Tennessee Valley basin.
Detailed explanation-2: -TVA uses water to make electricity at 29 hydroelectric dams and one pumped-storage power plant (at Raccoon Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee). Together these plants produced about 16.1 million megawatt hours of electricity in 2019, enough electricity to power more than one million homes for a year.
Detailed explanation-3: -Our Service Area. TVA’s power service territory covers 80, 000 square miles, including most of Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia. We provide electricity to nearly 10 million people at prices below the national average.