WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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It brought about a decrease in the nation’s literacy rate.
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It caused crowded farms and unsanitary conditions.
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It led to an increase in crop production at a lower cost to consumers.
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It increased the acreage of farmland that was unsuitable for farming.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The challenges that many American farmers faced in the last quarter of the nineteenth century were significant. They contended with economic hardships born out of rapidly declining farm prices, prohibitively high tariffs on items they needed to purchase, and foreign competition.
Detailed explanation-2: -Agriculture’s paradigm changed from widespread subsistence farming to a system of farms providing food for the newly urbanized areas. In 1890, roughly four of five Americans lived in rural areas. By 1915, only 65 percent were living outside cities of 30, 000 or more.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the end of the 19th century, about a third of Americans worked in agriculture, compared to only about four percent today. After the Civil War, drought, plagues of grasshoppers, boll weevils, rising costs, falling prices, and high interest rates made it increasingly difficult to make a living as a farmer.
Detailed explanation-4: -The contributions of agricultural mechanization in various stages of crop production could be viewed as saving in seeds, saving in fertilizers, saving in time, reduction in labour, increasing in cropping intensity and higher productivity.