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The McCormick reaper spread rapidly through the midwest. About how many were in use in the 1848 harvest, and by 1860?
A50, rising to 10,000
B5,000, rising to 50,000
C500, rising to over 100,000
D1,000, rising to 20,000
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. 500, rising to over 100,000
1. Labor-saving implements drove an unparalleled increase in midwestern farm production.
2. Some 500 reapers were used in the harvest of 1848 and over 100,000 in 1860.
3. Wheat crops swelled from about 35 million hectoliters in 1850 to nearly 61 million in 1860.
4. The other figures understate a growth of two hundredfold in twelve years.
_Source: "An Outline of American History" (USIA, 1990, public domain), Ch 5 "Sectional Conflict"_
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