Confederate States dam building project

The dam building project was a central plank of the Freedom Party platform in 1933. After a number of Confederate rivers flooded and overflowed their banks, Jake Featherston promised a major public works project to dam up the rivers. In addition to preventing further floods, it would provide jobs for Confederate citizens out of work in the wake of the stock market crash.

The popular project was deemed unconstitutional by the Confederate Supreme Court. Featherston took advantage of this to consolidate power in government by dissolving the Court for standing in the way of the people's wishes.

In 1943, the United States Air Corps bombed most of the dams built by the project, though it allowed two to remain standing as these two helped General Irving Morrell's advance theough Tennessee. Inr ecognition of this fact, retreating Confederate armies destroyed the dams themselves.