During world war 1 farmers worked reallyhard to produce record crops and more livestocks. but when the prices fell they worked harder to make more crops and livestock in order to pay there debts, taxes, and other living expenses. later the prices went very low and the farmers lost their farms.
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The lengthening of the barrel and the transition from muskets to rifles.<span> The longer barrel helped with accuracy. With rifles, the US could fire at the British from a safe distance and with accuracy.</span>
the lack of new factory jobs in the North" was not an economic problem facing the United States at the end of the Civil War. The others were all quite serious problems.
John D. Rockefeller went into business when he was 20, and he picked up his first oil well as a sideline. He soon saw that that was the right horse to ride. Even before automobiles and airplanes laid their heavy claim on oil, it'd begun replacing coal in the power industries.
Andrew Carnegie makes the better hero. He, after all, was part and parcel of the emerging technologies that made our country. And his giving sprang from some deep-seated core of principle. Yet the Rockefeller clan assumed the mantle of public service. They've become political leaders and professional givers -- one died doing anthropological research in New Guinea.
