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On 18 May 1933 President Roosevelt signed the bill establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), one of the greatest successes of the New Deal. The TVA was an ambitious project that revitalized a broad region of the rural Southeast. The TVA began by building a series of dams on government-owned land at the point where the Tennessee River descends almost 150 feet in thirty miles. These dams generated electricity and controlled flooding in the valley. Before they were built only 2 percent of the people in the valley had electricity; after their completion nearly 100 percent did. The TVA also provided jobs in government-constructed factories that produced nitrate fertilizers using electricity generated by the dams. Other TVA projects included reforestation and industrial and agricultural revitalization. The government followed up the successes of the TVA by building a series of dams in the Pacific Northwest and with the Rural Electrification...
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