was the driving force in bringing electrical power to the
1. The
South and spurring defense plant growth in the region.
2. During World War II,
3.
During the
changes occurred in the treatment of
Americans and growing progress in gaining civil and social rights.
years of the 1930s, the effects of constant
drought, the Dust Bowl, and declining prices for the mainstay crop of the South, cotton,
contributed to widespread agricultural and rural unemployment in the Tennessee Valley
states and in the South.
The
attack on
Great Depression.
5.
While
South,
of America's economy within days after the Japanese
on December 7, 1941, quite literally ended the
workers found ample work in the defense industries, especially the
were initially excluded; as well, welfare benefits were often
6.
of Tennessee Valley residents lacked
leaving residents to
store food in cellars or iceboxes, light homes by candle or kerosene lamps, and cook on
wood-burning stoves.