It raised productivity. The horse drawn seed drill, invented by Jethro Till ( the agricultural pioneer not the 1970s rock band!) was central to the Agricultural Revolution, which preceded the Industrial Revolution in England. The Agricultural Revolution allowed farmers to move from basically a subsistence economy to producing enough food to feed the towns and cities housed the industrial workers.
In 1970, the Indian Claims Commission gave the Seminole tribe a considerable sum of money as compensation for the land stolen from them by the US government.
