... 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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... 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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