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North begins to industrialize, South remains an agriculture hub
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Louisiana Purchase
this expands farmable land by large amounts -
farmers begin to use horsepower to pull newly invented implements.
this makes farming much faster and more efficient. -
Horse Drawn Reaper is invented
this greatly speeds up the process into of harvesting crops. -
Railroads
Provides farmers with a much faster to get there product to market. -
The American Civil War begins
The bloodiest war in american history begins. -
The United States Department of Agriculture
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Homestead act is first established, allowing settlers to claim 160 acres for almost no money at all.
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The Morrill act is passed giving money, and land to states to establish colleges, and universities for the common man.
Penn State is an example of a university established by this act. -
Agriculture science
As the USDA began to share it's discoveries, farmers began to attend agriculture science school's -
science changes the number of people needed for farming
the number of people needed for farming, drops again, because science has made another breakthrough in agriculture. -
New technology allows for farming farther away from rivers.
Dams now were able to supply dry land with irrigation water, and the areas that once were unfarmable were now able to be farmed.