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Why didn’t Southern farmers use inventions like the steel-tipped plow and the mechanical reaper?

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he rise of the mill in the 1820’s increased demand for cotton. It was now much faster and cheaper to create fabric using the power of flowing rivers. Remember from the colonial times, the short and fast rivers were found in New England. While this made large-scale farming impractical, these rivers are going to provide the power source for America’s early manufacturing.

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