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The Great Depression and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Comprehensive…

- - - - Comprehensive regional development project targeting poverty in the Tennessee Valley.
      - Constructed dams to provide hydroelectric power, control floods, improve navigation, and stimulate industrial growth.
      - Provided thousands of jobs and modernized a largely rural and underdeveloped area.
    - - Enlisted young men in environmental conservation projects (reforestation, soil erosion prevention).
      - Combined job creation with natural resource management.
    - - Created millions of jobs building public infrastructure: roads, bridges, schools, hospitals.
      - Included support for artists, writers, and musicians, recognizing culture as part of societal recovery.
    - - Established pensions for elderly, unemployment insurance, and welfare benefits, pioneering the modern welfare state.
    - - Creation of FDIC to insure bank deposits, restoring public confidence.
      - Glass-Steagall Act separated commercial and investment banking to reduce speculation risks.