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Tennessee is nicknamed the "Big Bend State" because of the unusual course of the http://www.answers.com/topic/tennessee-river. It flows southwest from the Appalachian Mountains through the Great Valley into Alabama. There, it bends north-westward, reenters Tennessee at http://www.answers.com/topic/pickwick-lake, and flows north along the western edge of the Highland Rim into Kentucky, eventually joining the http://www.answers.com/topic/ohio-river. During the 1930s, the United States government established the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a project to provide jobs for people who had lost their jobs during the Great Depression and intended to control flooding and to provide http://www.answers.com/topic/hydroelectricity to Tennessee and its neighbors. It was controversial, with many criticizing it as a waste of money, and others insisting that it was destroying Tennessee's environment. The TVA built dams on the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River, creating new lakes and reservoirs, as well as a system of over 650 miles of waterways that boats used to ship products around the state.

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