Farming is the bedrock of America. For a long time, Americans were required to own land to vote and most Americans were farmers. Before the industrial age most had a farm and the men and their families would work on the farm to provide for their families. Eventually as time went on improvements were made not only to farming but to the roads and transportation as well. It was not only the Americans progressing as planters or farmers. The Cherokee Native Americans also had their own system of farming. In Native American culture, it was not only the men who farmed it was also the women who farmed while the men hunted for meat. With the rise in ports and with the factories growing a new system was born in which the planters and the factory workers
