TVA Provided The Power To Change Tennessee The Tennessee Valley Authority brought the poverty stricken state of Tennessee out of the dark ages by providing employment and increases in the standards of living both through social and economic programs. Prior to the TVA the level of poverty in the Tennessee Valley was the worst in the nation. The onset of the Great Depression added to the hardships Tennesseeans where already coping with. With an average …showed first 75 words of 1385 total…

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