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Louisiana Purchase.
The Louisiana Purchase let farmers sell their goods. -
Agricultural Advancements
Farmers started to use horses or bulls to use in the fields. -
Agriculture exports
People built railroads to export agricultural goods. -
Civil War
farmers would send different crops and meat to give to the soldiers. -
Homestead Act
offered 160 acres of free land -
USDA
Abraham Lincoln created the United States department of agriculture known as the USDA. -
Post Work Agriculture
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. -
Post War Agriculture
sharecropping came into place witch made people work in the fields with cotton and tobacco. -
Advocacy for farmers
Farmers began to fight for their interests, improve rural life, and increase agricultural education for their members. -
The Great Plains
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. -
Agricultural experiment station
This helped with increasing farm production throughout the nations history. -
Early Agricultural Science Research
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. -
Science changes the number of people needed to farm
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.