I believe the answer is: <span>They used steel plows and other new forms of technology.
Prior to this invention, the farmers only rely on the buffalo's step or manual hooes to process the field and left the part where the soil composition is too hard to process. This of course resulted in lower amount of production that the farmers obtain per area of their farms.</span>
Jacksonian Democracy greatly impacted reform movements in the first half of the Nineteenth Century because it spread the idea that all men were created equal, and as such should be allowed the same privileges.