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Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland

- The Transformation of the Lowlands
Af: John C. Fisher Engelsk Paperback

Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland

- The Transformation of the Lowlands
Af: John C. Fisher Engelsk Paperback
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As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system of ditches dug by the Little River Drainage District--the largest in the U.S., excavating more earth than for the Panama Canal.

Farming quickly took over. The devastation of Southern cotton fields by boll weevils in the early 1920s brought to the cooler Bootheel an influx of black and white sharecroppers and cotton became the principal crop. Conflict over New Deal subsidies to increase cotton prices by reducing production led to the 1939 Sharecropper Demonstration, foreshadowing civil rights protests three decades later.

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As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system of ditches dug by the Little River Drainage District--the largest in the U.S., excavating more earth than for the Panama Canal.

Farming quickly took over. The devastation of Southern cotton fields by boll weevils in the early 1920s brought to the cooler Bootheel an influx of black and white sharecroppers and cotton became the principal crop. Conflict over New Deal subsidies to increase cotton prices by reducing production led to the 1939 Sharecropper Demonstration, foreshadowing civil rights protests three decades later.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 260
ISBN-13: 9780786479955
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0786479957
Udg. Dato: 30 apr 2017
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato: 30 apr 2017
Forfatter(e): John C. Fisher
Forfatter(e) John C. Fisher


Kategori Amerikansk historie


ISBN-13 9780786479955


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 260


Udgave


Længde 0mm


Bredde 152mm


Højde 229mm


Udg. Dato 30 apr 2017


Oplagsdato 30 apr 2017


Forlag McFarland & Co Inc

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