The River and Dam Act was a law that was signed by President Jake Featherston of the Confederate States of America in July 1934. The purpose behind the law was to tame the Mississippi River system that had caused so much trouble to the CSA in the past, and also to provide a source of energy for several million inhabitants of the Tennessee Valley. Featherston and his government also sought to create a constitutional crisis in which he would emerge more powerful and popular than before.