If you were a rural dweller during the 1930's, how would your living conditions be? Even though 90 percent of urban dwellers had electricity, only 10 percent of rural dwellers did. Could you believe how much your life would change if all of a sudden you could have electrical tools running on your farm?.
The TVA was the organization that was changing people's lives in the Tennessee Valley. The Tennessee Valley Authority's slogan was "Electricity for all", and that's what they did. By employing over 9,000 men to work on the dams, the TVA made a lot of the families" lives in the Tennessee area better. Another one of FDR's programs were CCC Camps. The CCC, or Civilian Conservation Corps, employed hundreds of men in the Utah area. Between 1933 and 1942 the C's taught men how to barber, cook, and even gave them somewhere to sleep. By giving people trades like these, they went on to get jobs to take care of their families. Giving jobs to people is one thing that the New Deal was trying to do for people, but things like the dustbowl tried to hinder that concept. When farms dried up and banks came to collect their money, the farmers were forced to sell their land. If there are no farms, then a lot of sharecroppers were out of business in the Oklahoma area. When news came that there was work in California they headed west. Farms in California were sending out 1000 flyers for 6 hundred people. But when 400 people read it and then bring the other 7 people in their family, there becomes a problem. With the clever name "Okies", sharecroppers from Oklahoma were being turned down from business in California or even forced into a slave like labor just because it was the only money opened to them at that time. These programs were only some examples of the New Deal. The New Deal was helping out all over the U.S., but Michigan was a special one. Not only were there 103 CCC Camps that helped put out forest fires but the Coast Guard was increasing safety by putting up buoys with lights that posted warnings to mariners.
