Yesterday in class (4/24/13) we created presentations. When
Homesteaders were moving west they were just figuring out which crops grew well
on the land. They mainly struggled because they had always grown the crops they
grew back home and these crops did not grow well in the tough prairie soil. As
a group are job was to make a presentation about the new product we would show
the “entrepreneurs” who would decide which product they would want to invest
in. You were either assigned to be an “entrepreneur” or you were going to
present the steel plow, the reaper, the thresher, the tractor, or barbed wire. My
group was the steel plow. The steel plow was invented by John Deere, an
Illinois blacksmith and manufacturer, in 1837. It's used to loosen soil to
plant crops. We decided to sell the steel plow for nine dollars and twenty-five
cents the only problem was you would have to buy several of them and they
require more man power. Today in class (4/25/13) we made our presentations. The
“entrepreneurs” chose the reaper and thresher because they were more efficient
and would make them easy money.
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