How Did the Work of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

question 97

Multiple Choice

How did the work of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) most significantly affect the lives of rural Southerners during the Great Depression?

• A) The TVA made electricity available to many rural residents in the South for the first time.
• B) The TVA reduced the electric rates to the large percentage of rural residents who already had access to electricity in their homes.
• C) The dams constructed by the TVA allowed rural farmers and planters to irrigate previously uncultivated land in the more arid regions of the South.
• D) Canals, which provided southern cities with fresh drinking water, linked the Tennessee River basin to large urban areas in the South, including Atlanta and New Orleans.

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