WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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To increase profits for his farm where he grew these crops
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Do decrease costs for everyday goods that Americans needed and wanted
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To increase demand for new crops farmers could grow to replenish their soil
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To increase western settlement by finding ways to use crops that grew well on the Great Plains.
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Detailed explanation-1: -At Tuskegee, Carver developed his crop rotation method, which alternated nitrate-producing legumes such as peanuts and corn with cotton, which depletes the soil of its nutrients. His innovations have been credited with the South’s economic survival in the early part of the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Carver solved this problem by inventing many different uses for these crops. He turned sweet potatoes, for example, into flour, vinegar and even writing ink, dyes and paint.
Detailed explanation-3: -Carver established an agriculture extension in Alabama and founded an industrial research lab where he worked tirelessly on the development of hundreds of applications for new plants. Carver discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Born a slave, Carver joined the faculty of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1896 where he developed new products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other crops and conducted experiments in crop rotation and the restoration of soil fertility.