Assume the role of a western farmer in the period 1800 to 1835. Tell w

Assume the role of a western farmer in the period 1800 to 1835. Tell what changes have occurred in your life. Specifically address the impact of industrialization and urbanization on American agriculture.

What will be an ideal response?

ANSWER
Consider: massive population movement to the West; cheaper land prices; more roads, canals, and railroads; mechanization of production; from self-sufficient to commercial (specialized cash crop) farming; urban market in the East; sons and daughters move to eastern cities; mortgages and foreclosures in the Panic of 1819; the West becoming the battlefield over slavery