TVA: Tennessee Valley Authority Flashcards
1
Q
When was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) established?
A
1933
2
Q
What did the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) do?
A
Built a series of dams to prevent floods and deforestation along the Tennessee River and to provide cheap electrical power for homes and factories in a seven-state region where many families still lived in isolated log cabins.
3
Q
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)put the federal government for the first time, in the business of what?
A
selling electricity in competition with private companies
4
Q
What did critics think of it?
A
They called it a socialist experiment
5
Q
Was the TVA part of Roosevelt’s first or second new Deal?
A
1st; it was part of what was known as “The Hundred Days”to get thing going again
