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improvement allowed the relations between the rural and urban populations to strengthen,

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resulting in an increase in trade. The urban population (defined as having over 2,500

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inhabitants) in the northern states increased rapidly after 1820.

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accompanied the decrease in rural populations, as farmers who “preferred trade,

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transportation, or ‘tinkering’” to the tasks of tending to crops and animals found great

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opportunities in the city (Danhof 7). Trade and transportation thus began to influence

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farming life significantly. Before 1820, the rural community accounted for eighty percent

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of consumption of farmers’ goods (Hurt 127). With the improvements in transportation,

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twenty-five percent of farmers’ products were sold for commercial gain, and by 1825,

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farming “became a business rather than a way of life” (128). This business required

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farmers to specialize their production and caused most farmers to give “less attention to

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the production of surplus commodities like wheat, tobacco, pork, or beef” (128). The

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increase in specialization encouraged some farmers to turn to technology to increase their

production and capitalize on commercial markets (172).

The technology farmers used around 1820 was developed from three main

sources: Europe, coastal Indian tribes in America, and domestic modifications made from

the first two sources’ technologies. Through time, technology improved, and while some

farmers clung to their time-tested technologies, others were eager to find alternatives to

these technologies. These farmers often turned to current developments in Great Britain

and received word of their technological improvements through firsthand knowledge by

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talking with immigrants and travelers. Farmers also began planning and conducting

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experiments, and although they lacked a truly scientific approach, these farmers engaged

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