Introduction - 3
•Plentiful food, mills, factories
and shops fuelled industrialisation
•new inventions e.g iron
ploughshare boosted output
•by 1860 agriculture accounted
for 82% of exports
•Agriculture drove development
•farmers start to target
railroads, shipping and merchants seeking better
deals
•co-operative
banks formed
•1896 backed Bryan for President - he lost