It forced people to leave their homes if they were in the way of a dam, put private electric companies out of business, and monopolized, via govt., the supply of electricity in its areas of operation
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The Tennessee Valley Authority helped Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, and Mississippi.
constructing jobs for the unemployed
It was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
TVA is the nations largest electric utility . It is government owned. TVA was started by the us gov. in1933 in the tennesee river valley to provide cheap reliable power .
A battle where Grant was caught napping by the Confederates, and his whole army nearly pushed into the Tennessee river. But they rallied next morning and drove the enemy off. This marked the end of Confederate ascendancy in Western Tennessee, and paved the way for Grant's liberation of the Mississippi Valley.