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The Louisiana Purchase let farmers sell their goods. -
Farmers started to use horses or bulls to use in the fields. -
People built railroads to export agricultural goods. -
farmers would send different crops and meat to give to the soldiers. -
offered 160 acres of free land -
Abraham Lincoln created the United States department of agriculture known as the USDA. -
The Civil War destroyed most of the plantation and four million slaves were freed and that's when sharecropping come into place and people started working in the fields with cotton and tobacco. -
sharecropping came into place witch made people work in the fields with cotton and tobacco. -
Farmers began to fight for their interests, improve rural life, and increase agricultural education for their members. -
half of all americans were working as manual laborers in the fields and more than three fourths of exports were agriculture goods. westward expansion moved the agriculture frontier to the great plains. -
This helped with increasing farm production throughout the nations history. -
Increasing mechanization continued to improve the productivity of American farmers. Scientists also discovered new crops for American farmers to grow and develop new breeds of livestock to provide more meat, milk, eggs and wool. -
By the end of the 1800s, many new discoveries were changing the way Americans farmed. One of the most important scientific advances of this period was the discovery that plants could be selectively bred for disease resistance.