... enacted in 1938 which authorized the imposition of production quotas. The fundamental policy, of planning agricultural production to fit demand and thus raise farm prices, was then consistently maintained. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) also continued robustly throughout the 1930's to build dams, furnish cheap electricity, and coordinate resource use in the Tennessee River Valley, as it had been ... short, voters at the lower end of the economic scale, the blue-collar workers and the "ethnics," the predominantly Catholic and Jewish immigrants from southern and eastern Europe who ha...

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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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... 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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