Cyrus McCormick

In 1837 John Deere invented the steal plow that helped cultivate cash crops faster without horse/oxen labor. It was tougher then the wood plow and lasted longer. The reaper invented by Cyrus McCormick allowed one farmer to do the work of five hired hands and to shift from subsistence farming to growing cash crops. In 1793, a New Englander, Eli Whitney, invented a cotton gin that successfully separated the fibers of short-staple cotton from…

One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eight grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is…

Beginning in the early to mid 1800’s the United States started to experience a flow of immigrants settling in the urban United States, and the rapid immigration went on to continue for the next few decades. The circulation of people and the Market Revolution had an enormous impact on the United States in various ways. These events during the nineteenth century brought many benefits to the American economy such as increased production of goods, the creation of new technologies, and higher…

Historians believe that the Market Revolution was the most relevant fact in the period between 1793 and 1850. This belief is prevalent because the Market Revolution changed the way people lived their lives, as it was a time when farmers stopped being self-sufficient and started producing in order to sell. There are three main topics of why the Market Revolution was so important for historians, ranging from the revolution in Transportation and Communication, changes in agriculture and its…

With the commencement of hostilities in April 1861, the Civil War was largely seen as a dispute over states’ rights. From a military standpoint, the South largely considered that its reserve of highly trained military officers and martial tradition of élan would make the difference in a quick, decisive war that would be over by Christmas. The reality of the situation would prove far different. The Civil War was largely the first industrial war, and was perhaps inevitable that the domination of…

In the early years of the United States' formation, the country was rooted in the original thirteen colonies. Through years of expansion, the United States grew into the country that we know today. Without the migration movements like the Separationist pilgrims' voyage to America, the founding of the original thirteen colonies, and the westward migration in the 1800s for gold, development, and prosperity, the country would not be the country it is today. The British colonization of the 1600s and…

benefit society & he even gave out over $350 mil to support libraries, universities, & public institutions. D. Technology and Innovations. a. Inventions ! First radical change ; telegraph by Samuel F.B. Morse (1844), Improved transatlantic cable by Cyrus W. Field’s (1866) with these two long distance communication was possible esp in war. - 1900, cables linked to all continents & telephone by Alexander Graham Bell (1876) ( Other inventions : Typewriter (1867) , cash register (1879) ,…

Powderly William Graham Sumner John P. Altgeld Samuel Gompers What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in the late nineteenth century? 2) How did the huge industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their effect on the economy? 3) What was the effect of the new industrial revolution on American laborers, and how did various labor organizations attempt to respond to the new conditions? 4) The…