Essays Tagged: "Tennessee Valley Authority"

'Life did get better for many Americans in the 1930's. How far was Roosevelt responsible for this, or was it due to other factors?'

special payments to farmers who agreed to reduce their production and therefore increase prices.The Tennessee Valley Authority - this was set up to help stop floods, which made Tennessee Valley one of ...

(2 pages) 29 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Franklin Roosevelt: Man of the Year

programs in order to help fix the problems of the depression. One of these programs being the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), which was established to create dams on the Tennessee River providing d ...

(2 pages) 27 0 0.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

(DBQ) To what extent did Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies benefit the lives of farmers during the Great Depression?

s, many were also enjoying the switch from kerosene to electricity for the first time thanks to the Tennessee Valley Authority. Furthermore, other close-to-home projects were being erected such as pub ...

(4 pages) 52 0 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

What were the Main features of the new deal

ll projects, was the the TVA, which paid people to build a series of damns to control floods on the Tennessee River, a poor and backward area in which 50% were dependent on government relief for survi ...

(3 pages) 22 0 4.2 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > The Great Depression

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(4 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government