1. Technology Improves Farming
By: Sara and Nicoelas

2. Summarize
John Deere and McCormick inventions improved farming in the 1800s
The new technology linked regions and contributed to national unity.
With the new farm equipment Midwestern farmers grew food to feed Northeastern factory workers.

3. John Deere
In 1836 a blacksmith, John Deere invented a lightweight plow with a steel cutting edge.
The result of John Deere’s invention made more farmers move to the Midwest

4. Cyrus McCormick Cyrus McCormick’s reaper, patented in 1834.
The threshing machine separated kernels of wheat from husks

5. Resources sites petersoncivilwar.wikispaces.com