Lumber Industry In The 1800s

During the 1860’s America was in a period of economic hardship due to the ongoing demand for materials and money to fund the war. In the South, sufficient money and materials were hard to acquire because the southern economy still depended on the labor of slaves to produce their goods and income rather than factories. The Northern economy used numerous factories to produce goods and make profit for the war, but they still did not have technology that was advanced enough to easily produce all the necessary materials and money. After the civil war, America embarked on a journey of economic expansion and unification for the nation. In the late 19th century, government policies, technological advancements and population changes contributed to

I choose to do the flour industry. Flour was and is a very useful item for baking. Bread was baked a lot in the 1800s. Since flour is used to bake bread, they used flour often.

1. Identify the key problem in the case and explaining why it is the key problem.

Until the late nineteenth century, the United States was still an agrarian community. As factories sprouted to process the products obtained from agriculture and to manufacture farm equipment, there rose

Back in the late 1800’s many things happened with the lumber industry. At one point there was more than four hundred lumber companies.

The cattle industry started to rise after the American civil war. This was due to the increase of cows in Texas as cows weren’t fenced in. A man called Joseph McCoy soon came up with the idea of the cow town of Abilene, where Northern buyers could meet up with Southern sellers where they were on equal footing and couldn’t be attacked by Indians. Abilene was built on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. This made it easier to transport cattle bought to the cities in the East like Chicago. By 1870 300,000 cattle were being bought and sold in Abilene. Cows that were sold in Texas for $5 could be sold for $40 in a cow town. This helped the cattle industry rise as it meant more people would sell their cows and gain profit. This then developed even further as the railroad was moved westward which developed other cow towns such as Dodge city and Kansas because it meant there was more places where you could gain more profit for selling your cows.

The town also became the end of a railroad line because of the lumber companies. Prostitution prospered with as many as fifty whorehouses in the downtown area. Prostitution was around until the late fifties when the police finally ended it. (Azerrad 12) The "lumber boom" slacked off a few years ago as "the economy fell and available lands were depleted." Now people are worried that the Northwestern logging industry will not be able to recover and Aberdeen "is marked for a slow ugly death." (Gilmore 44)

In the mid-1800s lots of things were being made by machine. For example: clothing, shoes, watches, guns, and farming machines were made. In 1840 the workday was 11 ½ hours. The workers were very tired and they most likely would have accidents. Workers and even children were hurt a lot by the machines. In the summer they were hot and in the winter they were cold, because there was not air conditioning or a heater in the factories. There were no laws to help the working conditions, and even to protect them. The owners didn't care about the workers, they cared about the money. Children would work six days a week and 12 hours or more a day. In the factories it was really hard and dangerous. Children would work the machines

2.During the years 1860-1890, Michigan's commercial development was dominated by the sawing, harvesting, milling and marketing of timber. Michigan politicians (under the influence of the state's Lumber Barons) fought hard to stop a bill that would have allowed Canadian lumber to enter the U.S. duty free. The lumber was desperately needed to rebuild a major American city after what terrible disaster?

The growth helped transport goods more efficiently and diversify the market. Document 5 shows that from 1850 to 1900, industry based on animals and humans decreased while industry bases on water and coal increased. This provides evidence that industry was more reliant on resources instead on animals and humans. Water and coal resources effectively created power sources and pushed forward industrialization (Doc 5). Document 7 states “In 1882 the Carnegie Steel Company.. Inaugurated a policy whose object was to control all the factors which contributed to the production of steel, from the ore and coal in the ground to the steel billet and the steel rail.”

During 1865-1900 technology made a huge impact in agriculture. What changed America was the expansion of railroads, limiting laws on goods that farmers sold and transportation of goods. Farmers began to harvest vast areas of needed crops such as wheat, cotton, and even corn. In document D shows you a picture of The Wheat Harvest in 1880.

By the end of the 1920s several events began to impact the success farmers had gained. First, a drought hit the Midwest - drying up the land and the crops. Second, demand for goods also fell, decreasing the value of the crops that went to the market. Finally, dust storms would wipe out the remaining fields - causing a total loss for both the sharecropper and landowner.

When Weyerhaeuser first started the company was just processing and harvesting timber. They had nothing more than land and a sawmill. They Cut the timber and let it reproduce and grow on its own. The company began growing rapidly. To keep up with demand the company purchased four World War 1 merchant ships to transfer lumber. This was the beginning of the Weyerhaeuser steamship business. In the mid 1920s Weyerhaeuser also started improving the quality of lumber. They began selling wood by grade and at precise lengths. They complete

1. Productivity of the crew would be below standard. I believe for the productivity to be below standard because they were sent to this crew because of their lack of work. Just because they have been assigned to another crew, does not mean that they will begin to work well right away. When compared to the Equity Theory, I believe there to be positive inequity for the three men assigned to the new group. For being assigned to the group due to lack of work, it is unfair to have a higher pay grade than those who have been in the company for a longer period of time and who are doing their job correctly. This may cause issues with subprofessionals being motivated to work to their full

The enormous redwoods were the central attraction for lumber industries. They realized they could make a profit from harvesting these redwoods and shipping them to San Francisco, to construct new structures that would contain the stream of miners from the gold rush. Lumber industries had troublesome times searching for a place to settle. Poor, rocky roads