1. How did mechanization transform rural life in United States?
Think About:
How did mechanization transform rural life in United States?

2. What is it?
Mechanization- change from working mostly by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery

3. Why does it matter?

4. Steel Plow John Deere

7. Cyrus McCormick

8. McCormick’s Farm

10. The Reaper
Cyrus McCormick of Virginia was responsible for liberating farm workers from hours of back-breaking labor by introducing the farmers to his newly invented mechanical reaper in July, 1831. By 1847, Cyrus McCormick began the mass manufacture of his reaper in a Chicago factory. This would eventually became the International Harvester Company.

11. The Reaper
The first reapers cut the standing grain and, with a revolving reel, swept it onto a platform from which it was raked off into piles by a man walking alongside. It could harvest more grain than five men using the earlier cradles. The next innovation, patented in 1858, was a self-raking reaper with an endless canvas belt that delivered the cut grain to two men who riding on the end of the platform, bundled it. and In 1872 he produced a reaper which automatically bound the bundles with wire. In 1880, he came out with a binder which, using a magical knotting device (invented by John F. Appleby) bound the handles with twine. 

12.
McCormick encouraged the invention and manufacture of other labor-saving farm implements and machinery.

16. Combine Harvester

17. Quick Write Let’s think about the result of mechanization…
How did it affect production?
How did it affect labor needs on the farms?

18. Combine Harvester Today

19. Agricultural Technology Today

20. Ag Tech Today