... useful public works projects. In 1938, Roosevelt made the PWA a division of the Federal Works Agency and the PWA was liquidated in the 1940's. Another program that was put into place was the Tennessee Valley Authority. The purpose of the TVA was to integrate development of the Tennessee River Basin, an area of about 41,000 square miles that covers parts of seven states. The TVA took the problems presented by devastating floods, badly eroded lands ... , the NYA's activities ceased. Also during these "Second Hundred Days" the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act were st...

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... human and natural resources. Congress established the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to develop the Tennessee River in the concern of navigation and flood control and to provide electric power to a wide area of the southeastern United States. The TVA was created in an attempt to improve the steadily worsening conditions in the Tennessee River Basin. In particular, the basin was suffering from frequent destructive floods, intermittent unavailability of the river, deforestation, and severely eroded land ... , and federal grants to the states to aid the aged, the handicapped, and families...

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... , he had visited Europe eight times. During his childhood, though, he was taught at home by tutors and governesses (Edmund, 24). His parents doted on him and denied him the freedom to plan his own activities, to make mistakes, and to play with other children in the neighborhood whose families were not socially important. When Roosevelt was fourteen, his parents sent him to ... the fashionable Groton school and he traveled to the campus in Massachusetts on his family's private railway car (Edmund, 5). For Roosevelt, Groton was different because he was earning above average, but not ... i...

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... wheat. In one of the areas in America hit hardest by the Depression, the Tennessee River Valley, an act named after the valley was formed to create a "planned economy." The Tennessee River was to be dammed up in several places to prevent flooding in the area, create jobs in building the dams, and to provide large amounts of inexpensive hydroelectric power. Low-cost housing, lots of cheap nitrates, restoration of eroded soil, improved ... Deal Administration and the Great Depression, and remains one of the legacies of Roosevelt. The National Labor Relations Act and the National Labor Rel...

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... he went to Harvard College in 1900. Four years later he graduated from Harvard at the age of 22. On March 17, 1905 Franklin D. Roosevelt married Eleanor Roosevelt. In attendance was former president Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor's uncle who stood in place of her deceased father. They had five children together although their marriage wasn't very stable due to Franklin's extra marital affairs with his ... (Public Works Association), which put many Americans to work while simultaneously initiating projects to better the country. For example, the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River was a ...

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... received free board and job training. From 1934 to 1937, this program funded similar programs for 8,500 women. e. Public Works Association (PWA) The PWA launched projects such as the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. f. National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) It legalized practices allowed only unevenly in the past, such as closed shops in which only union members could work and collective bargain ... and children, the blind and physically disabled. D. The 20th Amendment, known as the lame duck amendment, was ratified on February 6th, 1933. E. The 21st Amendment, which repealed ...

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