WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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an increase in production
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less dependence on railroads by farmers
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fewer agricultural exports
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the decreasing size of the average farm
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did the development of mechanized agriculture affect the United States? It led to a decrease in the need for labor, more acres of cultivation, and it led to the improvement of the USA’s economic growth.
Detailed explanation-2: -By reducing labor costs, such machines not only reduced manufacturing costs but lowered prices manufacturers charged consumers. In short, machine production created a growing abundance of products at cheaper prices. Mechanization also had less desirable effects. For one, machines changed the way people worked.
Detailed explanation-3: -Agricultural machinery can increase the degree of multiple cropping of cultivated land to provide the potential for multiple crop cycles per year, thus improving production capacity and land output rates (Peng et al., 2020; Ji et al., 2021).