How Has Technology Changed American Agriculture Essay

Technology has changes American agriculture in several ways during the years of 1865-1900. Technology has made lives better in the agriculture industry. Some of these ways include the light bulbs, biotechnology, and railroads.

Biotechnology has helped make food at a quicker and an even more affordable rate for the consumer of the food. Animals and crops have been bred for centuries and the disease resistance has been improved.

Light bulbs have helped American agriculture grow because they are currently used to keep small animals, like baby chickens, warm. Doing this can keep the baby chicken alive without its mother to keep it warm. We are now allowed to buy chickens and raise them easier and more efficiently.

Railroads has helped the American

agriculture industry grow rapidly during the gilded age. Railroads were able to transport food wherever they wanted the food to go. Railroads started from wood until Andrew Carnegie improved our ideas of the railroad with steel. Railroads made the shipping rate faster than ever before.
Government policy had also changed American agriculture.

Some of the ways are that the Democratic Party dominated the states’ political life and controlled of the state and local government. Voting rights’ were given to the people of this age. Political power has also changed of how the agricultural industry is. Workers were working such long hours but getting paid quite high wages depending on where you work. Because of the extremely high wages, immigrants started to take notice and action very quickly. Immigrants were being transported into the United States by railroads and boats. Most of them were Chinese.

Economic conditions have played a major role on how American culture has developed from 1865 to 1900. Newly developed crops were being formed, commercial agriculture was spreading quickly, the timber industry, mining, and railroads have encouraged the growth of manufacturing within the state. Apples, peaches, strawberries, and new forms of vegetables were created with biotechnology which was also a new form of breeding the food at that time. From there on, farmers took the cotton plants and developed the Cotton Oil Company, the Emma Oil of Pine Bluff Company, and the Little Rock Oil and Compress

Company.
Resources were being found and developed, farms were continuing to grow rapidly throughout the years, and manufacturing has brought a wide variety of industries throughout the economy.
Prices were rising as the years grew older. The pay per person for working was getting lower and it became very difficult to raise crops and a family through these though years.
All in all we have learned a lot from the educated people of this time during the Gilded Age. Without them, we would’ve never advanced to where we are today. Without Andrew Carnegie, most of our buildings wouldn’t be constructed how they are and as sturdy as they are. Carnegie was the first man to ever come up with steel buildings or even using steel any other way then the way it was originally intended for.