Indipendent Learning CentreHISTORYHISTORY 1011 Tennessee Valley Authority Closely look at these four documents a to d and
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1.Tennessee Valley AuthorityClosely look at these four documents (a to d) and then write an essay analyzing theeffects of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act on the citizens and private power utilitycompanies in the region.In your response, you should do the following:State a relevant thesis that directly addresses all parts of the question.Support the thesis or a relevant argument with evidence from all, or all but one, of thedocuments.Incorporate analysis of all, or all but one, of the documents into your argument.Focus your analysis of each document on at least one of the following: intendedaudience, purpose, historical context, and/or point of view.Support your argument with analysis of historical examples outside the documents.Connect historical phenomena relevant to your argument to broader events orprocesses.Synthesize the elements above into a persuasive essay.Use the documents and your knowledge of the Tennessee Valley Authority to write theessay.(a)"An Act to Improve the Navigability and to Provide for the Flood Control of theTennessee River: To Provide for Reforestation and the Proper Use of Marginal Landsin the Tennessee Valley; to Provide for the Agricultural and Industrial Development ofSaid Valley; to Provide for the National Defense by the Creation of a Corporation forthe Operation of Government Properties at and Near Muscle Shoals in the State ofAlabama, and for Other Purposes May 18, 1933"4
—Tennessee Valley Authority Act, 1933(b)(c)Daytonians had been struggling along for years with an outmoded municipal electricsystem which had its current generated in the steam plant of a local sawmill. Alreadythe city had been forced to pay for new equipment without having any part in itsmanagement. In 1934 the city was called upon to invest money for the patching up ofthis decrepit private plant, which was daily threatening to close down and leave the citywithout power.City commissioners talked the matter over. "If the TVA is going to start giving peoplearound here cheap electricity," they reasoned. "by gosh, Dayton is more entitled to itthan anybody else." So at the request (one might almost say demand) of thecommissioners, TVA worked out a system for local distribution. Though Dayton's rateshad been about the lowest of any municipal system in the section, the following tableshows what this transfer meant to her in dollars and cents:Rates Before TVAFirst 20 kilowatt-hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 centseachNext 30 kilowatt-hours . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 centseachNext 50 kilowatt-hours and over . . . . . 5 cents5
eachPresent TVA RatesFirst 40 kilowatt-hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 centseachNext 150 kilowatt-hours . . . . . . . . . . . 2 centseachNext 200 kilowatt-hours . . . . . . . . . . . 1 centeachNext 1000 kilowatt-hours . . . . . . . . . . 4 millsBriefly, TVA cut the average Daytonian's electric bill by about two thirds. In the fiveyears since the contract was made the number of power users in Dayton hasincreased from 637 to 923. and the total number of kilowatt-hours per consumer hasalmost doubled. Meanwhile the city of Dayton has made a net profit of $58,000, andnow makes a monthly profit of almost $4,000.
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