Rural+Electrification

Rural Electrification

 * TVA-Tennessee Valley Authority

Description**-Government implemented a far-reaching set of plans to bring electrical power and economic recovery to poor farmers living in seven southern states along the Tennessee River.


 * Impact during the Depression**- They built and improved waterways to stop flooding, they developed the use of fertilizer to stimulate crop growth, preserved natural resources such as timber and soil, planted trees, and also taught farmers better planting methods. TVA built dams, power lines, and power plants to bring cheap electricity, to hundreds of thousands of rural homes.


 * Impact Today**-In the 1990s TVA operated much like it did during the New Deal remaining one of the nations largest and cheapest suppliers of power. Dams completed during the New Deal continued to supply power to regions that would not be largely populated without it.

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