Map Activity 2 for Chapter 24

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Figure false: MAP 24.3 The Tennessee Valley Authority
Figure false: The New Deal created the Tennessee Valley Authority to modernize a vast impoverished region with hydroelectric power dams and, at the same time, to reclaim eroded land and preserve old folkways.
Figure false: MAP ACTIVITY

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READING THE MAP: How many states were affected by the TVA? How many miles of rivers (approximately) were affected?

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CONNECTIONS: What kinds of benefits — economic as well as social and cultural — did TVA programs bring to the region? How might the lives of a poor farming family in Alabama or Tennessee have changed after the mid-1930s owing to these programs?