HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Continental System, Party System, Rideau Canal
15 Apr 2016
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Square townships, subdivided equally into lots to people who could apply for land (this setup is very english) This meant two systems of land tenure simultaneously: i. ii. This newer english system - this was projected to eventually dominate and erase the older system. Some cases of crop failures, some insect infestations at various points in history. Some hypothesize that the farmers weren"t using modern. English farming methods such as fertilization/crop rotation therefore the land failed them. More recently its been argued that this crisis has been largely created - just because they weren"t producing wheat doesn"t mean they weren"t producing other things. Perhaps the farmers were just changing their economic strategies, the international wheat market was very volatile anyways. Perhaps this was the introduction of capitalism to the agriculture market. **in any case, we know that poverty was increasing during this time period suggesting why people began to migrate to the eastern.
