RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
HOMESTEAD ACT
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Cyrus McCormick
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City slickers
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John Deere
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Eli Whitney
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Detailed explanation-1: -Who Invented the Steel Plow? John Deere invented the steel plow in 1837, in Grand Detour, Illinois when the Middle-West was first being settled. The soil was richer than that of the East and the farmer’s wood plows kept breaking.
Detailed explanation-2: -John Deere was a blacksmith who developed the first commercially successful, self-scouring steel plow in 1837 and founded the company that still bears his name.
Detailed explanation-3: -Steel could shed, or scour, the sticky black prairie soil. Another Illinoisan blacksmith, John Lane, is credited as among the first inventors of the steel plow in 1833.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Deere failed as a blacksmith in Vermont but succeeded as an agricultural tool manufacturer in Illinois. His company built revolutionary plows like this early 1838 example. The steel blades of Deere plows slid more easily through sticky prairie soil and made farmers more efficient.