BOTANY 205 FILM/VIDEO STUDY GUIDE The Ri ver R-10 (32 m) 1. Approximately how much of the North American continent drains through the Mississippi River system? 2. Who began to build the dike system along the Mississippi River? Why? 3. What negative changes took place in the Mississippi River drainage area following the Civil War? 4. Why were the northern watersheds deforested after the Civil War? 5. What happened in the eastern portion of the Mississippi River drainage system after the Civil War? What happened in the western portion? What happened along the river banks? What were the consequences of these occurrences? 6. What year was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) established? What was/is the purpose of the TVA? Do you know of any recent problems the TVA has faced? 7. What was the function of the Civil Conservation Project (CCP)? 8. Have we been totally successful in undoing the damage that our forefathers did to the watersheds of the Mississippi River system? Mississippi River Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dike Civil Conservation Project (CCP) Civil War dam lumber navigation cotton flood control top soil agriculture share-cropper soil conservation forest homestead tenement farmers hydroelectric power