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TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

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Its goal was to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression

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In my opinion, this program was successful because it helped many people throughout the depression. It improved the quality of life in the Tennessee region. It was also the largest electricity supplier in the 1950s and that benefited from 1959 legislation which made our power system self-financing.

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No this program was not a responsible use of federal funding because it finances its operations through the sale of their bonds and through the sale of their energy

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TVA came from power companies who resented the cheaper energy available through TVA and people saw it as a threat to private development. They charged that the federal government's involvement in the power business was unconstitutional.