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Trade routes to market were cut off by war, either water ways or roads. Farmers could not plant surpluses because they might not be able to sell the excess and it would just rot on their fields. Herds of cattle and horses were depleted either by the plundering of the British or as provisions for the Continental Army.
The first popularly elected legislature in the new world
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It is suggesting an improved technology. A new fertilizer that grows bigger, faster, more crops than the old fertilizer did.
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