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The Effects of Technology, Government Policy, and Economic Conditions on American Agriculture During 1865-1900 From the expanding of railroads country wide, to limiting laws on the goods farmers sold and transportation of the goods,to starvation of the economy, agriculture began to take its own shape from 1865 through to 1900 in the United States. Farmers began to cultivate vast areas of needed crops such as wheat, cotton, and even corn. Document D shows a picture of The Wheat Harvest in 1880, with men on earlier tractors and over 20-30 horses pulling the tractor along the long and wide fields of wheat. As farmers started to accumilate their goods, they needed to be able to transfer the goods across states, maybe from Illinios to Kansas, or Cheyenne to Ohmaha. Some farmers chose to use cattle trails to transport their goods. Document B demonstrates a good mapping of the major railroads in 1870 and 1890. Although cattle trails weren't used in 1890, this document shows the existent of several cattle trails leading into Chyenne, San Antonio, Kansas City and other towns nearby the named ones in 1870. So, farmers began to transport their goods by railroads, which were publically used in Germany by 1550 and migrated to the United States with the help of Colonel John Stevens in 1826. In 1890, railroads expanded not only from California, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada, but up along to Washington, Montana, Michigan, down to New Mexico and Arizona as well. Eastern States such as New Jersey, Tennesse, Virginia and many others were filled with existing railroads prior to 1870, as Colonel John Stevens started out his railroad revolutionzing movement in New Jersey in 1815. While farmers sold millions of bushels, and bales of wheat, cotton and corn, state legislatures began to see a need to enforce laws upon these farmers and to gain control of their states and its people. Document C gives a good statement of legislature holding down railroads and the goods being transported. Document C states a prairie farmer , "...they carried a law through the Illinois legislature, which provides for the limiting of freight rates by a board of officials appointed for this purpose." Angered by these types of laws, farmers who used these railroads went against the laws in court.

In this essay, the author

  • Explains the effects of technology, government policy, and economic conditions on american agriculture from 1865 through 1900.
  • Analyzes how state legislatures saw a need to enforce laws upon farmers and gain control of their states and its people.
  • Analyzes how people like mary elizabeth lease spoke out opinions of the population decrease. legislatures, leaders, and natural disasters contributed to the death-rate rise.
  • Illustrates the fluctuation of production in the years when people bought less, maybe because of financial problems, natural disaters or even legislature laws.
  • Explains that farmers began to take the opportunity of possibly making a better lifestyle for them in 1865. some people of the states spoke out to keep the large areas of land clear for agriculture.
  • Analyzes how agriculture became an important part of the u.s. history in the 1900's, when the economy fell and desperately tried to climb back up.
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