Post by alissamcnerney on Jan 27, 2016 23:15:47 GMT
Prompt:
Analyze the ways in which technology, government policy, and economic conditions changed American agriculture in the period 1865-1900.
The prompt asked how American agriculture changed due to advancements in technology, government policy, economic conditions following the Civil War.
Intro:
Background Info:
-1865 end of civil war
-1862 Homestead Act
-1864 Transcontinental Railroad
-1874 Barbed wire invented
Thesis: Because of improved technology and transportation, land grants, and rapid industrialization, agriculture moved away from small, self-sufficient farms, towards large scale, single crop farms.
Body Paragraph 1: Technology
-Trains (promoted/enabled settlement and trade)(high transport prices)
-Larger/better farming equipment (more land could be harvested)
-Bonanza farming (large, single crop farms)(more efficient)
-End of open range (barbed wire)
Body Paragraph 2: Government Policy
-High tariffs on manufactured goods (favored industry; led to farmers being poor)
-Land grants/encouraged settlement west (cheap western land to farm)
-Lack of currency (farmers' money was in land, most of wealth with the industry/East)
Body Paragraph 3: Economic Conditions
-Overproduction lead to lower prices (supply > demand)
-Fluctuations of prices (reliant on single crop)
-Institutions controlling credit (in debt) (high interest rates)
-Monopolies
-Urbanization and Industrialization meant people left agriculture and moved to cities
Analyze the ways in which technology, government policy, and economic conditions changed American agriculture in the period 1865-1900.
The prompt asked how American agriculture changed due to advancements in technology, government policy, economic conditions following the Civil War.
Intro:
Background Info:
-1865 end of civil war
-1862 Homestead Act
-1864 Transcontinental Railroad
-1874 Barbed wire invented
Thesis: Because of improved technology and transportation, land grants, and rapid industrialization, agriculture moved away from small, self-sufficient farms, towards large scale, single crop farms.
Body Paragraph 1: Technology
-Trains (promoted/enabled settlement and trade)(high transport prices)
-Larger/better farming equipment (more land could be harvested)
-Bonanza farming (large, single crop farms)(more efficient)
-End of open range (barbed wire)
Body Paragraph 2: Government Policy
-High tariffs on manufactured goods (favored industry; led to farmers being poor)
-Land grants/encouraged settlement west (cheap western land to farm)
-Lack of currency (farmers' money was in land, most of wealth with the industry/East)
Body Paragraph 3: Economic Conditions
-Overproduction lead to lower prices (supply > demand)
-Fluctuations of prices (reliant on single crop)
-Institutions controlling credit (in debt) (high interest rates)
-Monopolies
-Urbanization and Industrialization meant people left agriculture and moved to cities
