THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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deliver food to the poverty-stricken Dust Bowl residents
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build dams and generators that provided electricity
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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: -President Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act on May 18, 1933, creating the TVA as a federal corporation. The new agency was asked to tackle important problems facing the valley, such as flooding, providing electricity to homes and businesses, and replanting forests.
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: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The TVA aimed to help reduce these problems by teaching better farming methods, replanting trees, and building dams. This agency was also important because it generated and sold surplus electricity, created jobs, and conserved water power.