1. Mechanization of Agriculture

2. Agriculture = Farming Mechanization = a change from doing by hands and/or animals to doing by machine

3. Farming Get land ready for planting Plant crops Maintain crops
Harvest crops
Get crops ready to sell

4. Farming in the Colonies
Hand tools
Manual labor
Slavery
Animals – oxen, horses

5. Machine Inventions Cotton Gin 1793 Eli Whitney
Separated seeds of cotton from the cotton fibers
Quicker production of cotton

6. Machine Inventions Reaper 1834 Cyrus McCormick
Cut, threshed, and bundled grain
Increased production
of grains

7. Machine Inventions Steel Plow 1837 John Deere
Replaced wooden plows that could not cut through the soil in new territory

10. Machine Inventions New inventions made farming easier
Increased the amount of (production) goods
Increased slavery because more cotton could be grown in the south, and the Cotton gin made it easier to separate cotton fibers from the seeds
Rise of Plantations