Tennessee Valley Authority

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Tennessee Valley Authority
By Cadet Esparza
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The Tennessee Valley Authority is a New Deal
agency created to generate electric power and
control floods in a seven-U.S.-state region
around the Tennessee River Valley.
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It was a part of the Federal initiatives to
provide navigation, flood control, strategic
materials for national defense, electric power,
relief of unemployment and improvement of living
conditions in rural areas. The TVA was more than
just a power supplier.
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• During the 1920s and the Great Depression
  years the public of the USA became disenchanted
  with privately owned power and began to support
  the concept of Government ownership of utilities,
  particularly hydroelectric power facilities.
• The concept of Government owned generation
  facilities selling to publicly owned distribution
  utilities was a controversial political issue.

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"We wanted those dams to have the honest beauty
of a fine tool, for TVA was a tool to do a job
for men in a democracy."--David Lilienthal
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