Examples of Tennessee Valley Authority in the following topics:
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- Tennessee Valley Authority (1933): A major public work project that aimed to
modernize the poor farms in the Tennessee Valley region by providing
navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development.
- Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Planting Crew, author unknown, 1939.
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- As noted by one authority, Roosevelt's New Deal "was literally stamped on the American landscape. "
- In 1933, the Administration launched the Tennessee Valley Authority, a project involving dam construction on an unprecedented scale in order to curb flooding, generate electricity, and modernize the very poor farms in the Tennessee Valley region of the Southern United States.
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- The Tennessee Valley Authority
(1933) was the first large-scale public work project, which created short- and
long-term jobs by building and operating a hydroelectric project in the valley
of the Tennessee River.
- A poster publicizing Social Security benefits, author unknown, late 1930s/early 1940s
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- In 1933, the Administration launched the Tennessee Valley Authority, a project involving dam construction on an unprecedented scale in order to curb flooding, generate electricity, and modernize the very poor farms in the Tennessee Valley region of the southern United States.
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- The Tennessee Valley Authority was also controversial in the 1930s.
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- Work relief programs provided jobs, ambitious projects, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, were created to promote economic development, and a social security system was established.
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- Also in 1932, Hoover signed the Emergency Relief and Construction Act, which authorized considerable funds for public works programs and direct relief programs.
- The Tennessee Valley Authority (1933) was the first large-scale public work project.
- It created short- and long-term jobs by building and operating a hydroelectric project in the valley of the Tennessee River.
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- Brown's Ferry crossed the Tennessee River with a navigable point that could be reached by Union supply boats.
- A force at Brown's Ferry would also threaten the right flank of any Confederate movement into the valley.
- Hoping to distract Bragg's attention, Grant authorized Thomas's army to advance in the center of his line to the base of Missionary Ridge.
- The Union now held undisputed control of the state of Tennessee, including Chattanooga, the "Gateway to the Lower South."
- Chattanooga viewed from the north bank of the Tennessee River, 1863.
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- Therefore, settlers from Pennsylvania had tended to migrate south along the Great Wagon Road through the Appalachian Valley and Shenandoah Valley.
- Beginning on March 10, 1775 Boone, along with thirty-five men, cut a trail from Kingsport, Tennessee through the forests and mountains to Kentucky.
- A postal road was opened in 1792 from Bean Station, Tennessee, through the Cumberland Gap to Danville, Kentucky.
- Course of the Wilderness Road, through Tennessee and Kentucky, by 1785.
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- The Southern Renaissance
included famed writers such as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Robert
Penn Warren.
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start of the Southern Renaissance is often traced back to the activities of
"The Fugitives," a group of poets and critics based at Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Tennessee, just after the First World War.
- Beyond Faulkner, playwright Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie), author Robert Penn
Warren (All the King’s Men), and
others including Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne
Porter, and Allen Tate were classified as Southern Renaissance writers.
- Native Son author Richard Wright was one of the notable African-American authors who has been arguably overlooked as part of the Southern literary tradition.
- William Faulkner, author of the 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, was a leading voice in the Southern Renaissance movement.