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Total population: 31,443,321
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Total population: 38,558,371
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Total population: 50,155,783
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Total population: 62,941,714
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Total population: 75,994,26
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Total population: 91,972,266
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31% of labor force
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8% of labor force
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43% of labor force
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Farmers made up 49% of labor force
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53% of labor force
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Drought reduced settlement on the Great Plains
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1887-97
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The sharecropping system in the South replaced the old slave plantation system
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Homestead Act granted 160 acres to settlers who had worked the land 5 years
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Cattle boom
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range wars
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commercial fertilizer: 6,116,700 tons
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ommercial fertilizer: 3,738,300
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commercial fertilizer: 1,845,900 tons
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improved technology and resulting increases in farm production
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75-90 labor-hours required to produce 100 bushels of corn (2-1/2 acres)
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35-40 labor-hours required to produce 100 bushels (2-1/2 acres) of corn with 2-bottom gang plow, disk and peg-tooth harrow, and 2-row planter
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with walking plow, harrow, and hand planting
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commercial fertilizer: 6,845,800 tons
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commercial fertilizer: 6,599,913
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15-20 labor-hours required to produce 100 bushels (2-1/2 acres) of corn with 2-bottom gang plow, 7-foot tandem disk, 4-section harrow, and 2-row planters, cultivators, and pickers
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In 1879, Anna Baldwin patented a milking machine that replaced hand milking
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Cyrus H. McCormick
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reaper
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