田纳西河谷管理局(Tennessee Valley Authority)

大萧条(Great Depression)时，联邦政府进行的计划中，最着名且最成功的一项是田纳西河谷管理局或简称TVA。您知道这个计划的内容及为什么要进行这个计划原因吗？

1930年代大萧条时间，罗斯福总统(Franklin D. Roosevelt)规划了许多新计划及代理机构来帮助那些经济受创的地区。其中一个机构就是成立于1933年的田纳西河谷管理局。田纳西河谷常面临水灾、森林滥伐及水土流失问题。而TVA希望藉由敎导较佳的耕种方法、重新种植树木及兴建水坝来减少这些问题。这个机构另一个重要功能在负责生成及贩售过剩电力、创造就业机会及保存水力。几乎从一开始，TVA就成功的舒缓了田纳西、部分肯塔基州、阿拉巴马州、乔治亚州、北卡罗来纳州及维吉尼亚州的经济困境。

One of the most famous and successful projects begun by the federal government during the Great Depression was the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA. Do you know what it was and why it was started?

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt set up many new projects and agencies to help the hardest hit areas of the United States. One such agency was the Tennessee Valley Authority, which was created in 1933. The Tennessee River valley was continually dealing with floods, deforestation, and eroded land. The TVA aimed to help reduce these problems by teaching better farming methods, replanting trees, and building dams. This agency was also important because it generated and sold surplus electricity, created jobs, and conserved water power. The TVA was a great success almost from the beginning and helped ease some of the economic hardship not only in the state of Tennessee but also in parts of Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia.

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