Shelly Milinichik John Gaines History 101 December 28, 2012 American Industrial Revolution For centuries before the Civil War, people had lived their daily lives in basically the same way. The typical family lived on a farm and raised most of the food they needed on their own land. They wove their own cloth, sewed their own clothes, and made their own furniture. They didn't need much money because they traded with neighbors for most things they needed but did not make themselves. All of that changed in the second half of the eighteenth century with the Industrial Revolution.
Even though China was in a rapidly changing time, it still tried to stay to its roots. One important part of Chinese life was agriculture; almost 70% of the people were farmers in 1500 because of the large population. While Europe, India, and Japan industrialized sometime from 1450 to 1914, China never did. Even after China’s self-imposed isolation ended, several periods of widespread famine, and the disaster known as the Opium Wars in the 19th century, which allowed the Europeans and their ships to travel anywhere in China, and made the Chinese pay tribute. After all of this, China still did not industrialize until the 1960’s.
Document A is a chart depicting the price per bushel of wheat, cotton, and corn compared to the millions of bushels produced every five years. As the years progressed, it is seen that the price per bushel steadily decreased as the amount of bushels increased, leading to overproduction. This overproduction may have been the result of farmers beginning to utilize irrigation systems as well as machinery to produce the crops quicker and easier. Also, document D shows the image of cattle guiding a machine in order for the farmer to harvest the vast amount of wheat more sufficiently. The picture implies that the technology used by farmers had become more and more popular, causing most farmers to take part in Bonanza farming in which they would harvest larger amounts of land in order to participate in large-scale commercial farming.
Prior to the “five year plans”, Russia had mostly a peasant farming economy. The 1750 to 1914 period in Russia was met by a large increase in the available labor force. Coupled with an increase in population, Russia's emancipation of the serfs freed many of Russia's serfdom from perpetual slavery. However, the emancipation process was planned so as to put the freed serfs deeply in debt to the original owners of the land. In fact, many of the serfs were so deeply indebted that they relocated to Russia's cities in search of better work opportunities.
Collectivisation was a major cause of the great famine. Collectivisation involved the peasants joining together to farm collectively rather than individually. They then had to share the food produced with the rest of the community, rather than just with their families. This removed the incentive for the peasants to produce as much as possible as they were not going to be as directly affected by their own levels of production. Collectivisation was introduced by Mao in 1958, in 1958 production rate of food was at 200 million tonnes, but by 1960 the production rate had fallen to 143.5 million.
DBQ Although the needs of farmers were recognized and appealed to, agriculture was still drastically changed by technology, government policy, and economic conditions, eventually leading to a sharp decline between 1865 and 1900. This thesis will be defended by examining the impact of technology on agriculture, analyzing government policy, and studying economic conditions. With the many advancements made in technology, agriculture became more beneficial and allowed more farmers to prosper. The creation of tools such as the chilled-iron plow, the grain drill and the baling press all contributed to the domination of the Plains. However, most of these technological innovations were not within the grasp of the average farmer; only wealthy farmers could afford to own things such as the wheat harvester and the number of horses it took to pull it (Document D).
The slave trade expanded to meet the demand for labor in the new American colonies, and millions were exported in an organized commerce that involved Europeans, Africans as well as the colonies. The slave labor made up a huge percentage of the workforce because of they cheap and effect work. . By the mid-1800s the starting with the British Slave Trade Act of 1807 the idea of slavery was being looked down upon. Starting with the British then the USA followed soon by many European countries the slave trade was completely outlawed.
In the AAA’s first year the supply of food outstripped the demand. The AAA could raise prices by paying farmers to destroy crops, milk and livestock. To control production and farm prices the AAA paid farmers to leave some of their land uncultivated. For example if the markets demand for wheat and cotton decreased the AAA would give money to farmers as subsides which are grants of money given to farmers or any other
They tried using the education for the poor, so that they could stretch their money. But instead the congress demanded the FSA to help the tennant farmers be able to purchase their farms. Loans became avaiable to them up to $191 million in loans were made and eventually repaid. As time went on their were larger loan programs made to over 950,000 tennant farmers in the amount of $778 million. Reasons for this was to make the farmers more efficient, some used their loans for new machinery, vehicles, or to even repay old debts they had.
In the late years of the 19th century, survivors of a recent civil war began their focus on new life and agriculture development in America. As before, the difference between northern and southern production differed in that the north relied on trade, fishing, and factories while in the south, most land was owned by few wealthy land owners and used slave labor to operate them. However, following the civil war, plantations were destroyed and many Americans sought for a new way of life and agricultural progress. Further changes in the American agriculture in the years 1865-1900 were brought about by technology, government policies, and economic conditions. As the movement of individualism shifted toward the West, Americans became more involved