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Total Population in the United States
The total population that was in the United States was 5,308,483 -
Louisiana Purchase
James Monroe and co. successfully enacts the Louisiana Purchase which expanded the United States, giving it even more land to perform agriculture and expand. -
Population Increase
The population increased significantly because of the Louisiana Purchase which boosted the population to 7,239,881.
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Steamboats!
Steamboats had become a practical way to move agricultural products. -
USSAC
The United States Senate Agriculture Committee was established. This committee is a committee of the United States Senate who has the power to oversee anything pertaining to this nation's agriculture industry, farming programs, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Agriculture,_Nutrition_and_Forestry http://www.agricultureslastingheritage.org/american-history-agriculture/ -
Labor Hours
Approximately 250-300 labor-hours were needed to produce 5 acres of wheat with a walking plow, brush harrow, a mechanical seed spreader, a sickle, and flail. -
Transportational improvement
"Following 1820, government and private sources invested substantial sums in canals, and after 1835, railroad investment increased rapidly. These conditions were only met in the richest agricultural and resource (lumbering and coal mining, for example) areas traversed by the Erie and Champlain Canals in New York and the coal canals in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The vast majority of the other canals failed to yield benefits for agriculture and industry, and most were costly. -
Metropolitan Industrial Complexes
By 1840, each of them was surrounded by industrial satellites – manufacturing centers in close proximity to, and economically integrated with, the metropolis. Together, these metropolises and their satellites formed metropolitan industrial complexes, which accounted for almost one-quarter of the nation’s manufacturing.
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Potato Famine
Potato famine in Ireland and the German Revolution of 1848 greatly increase immigration. One of the most obvious effects of the famine was emigration. Although the famine itself probably resulted in about 1 million deaths, the resultant emigration caused the population to drop by a further 3 million. About 1 million of these are estimated to have emigrated in the immediate famine period, with the depression that followed continuing the decline until the second half of the 20th century. -
Gold Rush
The huge influx of people into California opened up many more opportunities in the economic scheme of things. Manufacturing, trade, merchant businesses, agriculture, entertainment market, and the newly formed banks and financial institutions all flourished and prospered because of the gold rush. By 1855, the day of the individual miner was dead and the modern capitalistic economy was established.
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USAS
The United States Agricultural Society was founded when the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture along with 11 other bodies decided to form the United States Agricultural Society. It was powerful body with the ability to influence Congress and was able to influence the Congress to bring in enactments the Land Grants Act and creation of Department of Agriculture in 1862 can be attributed to it.
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Alfalfa Seeds
Alfalfa seeds were imported to California from Chile in the 1850s. That was the beginning a rapid and extensive introduction of the crop over the western US States[4] and introduced the word "alfalfa" to the English language. In the North American colonies of the eastern US in the 18th century, it was called "Lucerne", and many trials at growing it were made, but generally without sufficiently successful results.
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Demand For Cotton
By 1860, Great Britain, the world’s most powerful country, had become the birthplace of the industrial revolution, and a significant part of that nation’s industry was cotton textiles. Nearly 4,000,000 of Britain’s total population of 21,000,000 were dependent on cotton textile manufacturing. Nearly forty percent of Britain’s exports were cotton textiles. Seventy-five percent of the cotton that supplied Britain’s cotton mills came from the American South, which was produced by slaves. -
Horse Power
Transitioning from mechanical power into horse power (actual horses) was derived and self evident from the first American Revolution that took place. -
Enter Silos
At the beginning of the 1870's this is when Silos were first introduced to agriculture. Silos were an underground chamber or tower on a farm that is used to store grain.
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Barbed Wire
The surplus amount of barbed wire allowed fencing of farmland, which stopped open-ranged grazing.
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Mini Depression
Many Americans had settled on the plains in the 1880s. Abundant rainfall in the 1880s and the promise of free land under the Homestead Act drew easterners to the plain. When dry weather returned, the homesteaders' crops failed, sending many of them into debt, farther west, or back to the east or south. Farmers began to organize into groups called Granges and Farmers' Alliances to address the problems faced by farmers. farmers tried to launch a new political party called the People's Party. -
Potential Problem?
Increases in land under cultivation and number of immigrants becoming farmers caused great rise in agricultural output. There were many problems faced by both farmers and immigrants in the late 1800’s. The economy was very shaky, the government was not stepping up to help, and the immigrants faced harsh times in their coming to America. Eventually many groups were formed to help with these issues. -
Cotton Boll Weevil
This pest appeared in Texas about 1892 and spread to most cotton-growing regions of the United States. Over the years the weevil became a significant pest, destroying about 8% of the annual U.S. cotton crop. Boll weevil devastation was a major reason for diversification of the South's historic cotton economy. In 1978, however, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture began a concerted eradication campaign. By the end of the century the weevil had disappeared from from most of the nation except the Southern -
Population Increase
The total population in the US was 75,994,266 in which 29,414,000 (estimated) consisted of the farmer population.
Farmers made up 38% of labor force. There were around 5,740,000 farm being tended to. This all equaled 147 acres.