Student history of TVA
The Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 as part of the New Deal effort to lift the nation out of the depths of the Great Depression. Just 37 days after he took office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to create TVA. Instead of many agencies dealing with a variety of public needs, one unified development program would serve the entire region. And it would be located not in Washington but in the Valley, among the people it served. On May 18, 1933 - little more than a month after his request - Congress approved Roosevelt's proposal, and TVA was born. Its assignments were many. They included fertilizer research and agricultural development, and river development to provide flood control, navigation, and electric power, plus natural resource conservation, forestry, economic development, and planning for a better life for the people.
- Research Organization:
- Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6390988
- Report Number(s):
- TVA/OGM/IO-84/5; ON: DE85900230
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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