Contributing Factors to Agricultural Innovation

Many factors contributed to the dissolution of the feudal system. With respect to this current research, the significant points about these factors is that they were interrelated, their combined impact brought an end to feudalism, and the end of feudalism ushered in urbanization. These contributing factors created two conditions which led to the end of feudalism. The first of these conditions was the rise of towns. Towns provided an alternative way of making a living for individuals who had heretofore been restricted to the farms. While only a relatively few serfs left the farms in the early stages of town development, the higher income levels available in towns created pressures for changes on the farms. Thus, to prevent losses on the farms, feudal lords were required to make concessions to those serfs remaining. These concessions were most often manifested in greater personal freedom, and in the transformation of feudal dues to money rents for the individuals providing the labor for the work perfor

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owth of the market economy demanded new institutions and practices to keep the economy thriving. The development of new institutions and practices in production depended, to a great extent, on the development of technical innovations, and their incorporation into production processes (Ashton, 1976, pp. 4266). The industrial revolution, together with the economics of nineteenth century transportation, led to major social, political, and economic changes in the United States (Lowry, 1993, pp. 5658). Generally, the economics of nineteenth century transportation meant that it was cheaper to move goods than it was to move people. Thus, people would tend to congregate in cities, which are located in places possessing some natural advantagea port site, an energy supply, a vital natural resource, and so forth. In the case of the United States in the firsthalf of the nineteenth century, however, the economics of transportation also meant that it became feasible for people to migrate to the west and northwest. In the firsthalf of the nineteenth century, however, the westward expansion of the country was given added impetus by governmental actionsboth federal and statedesigned to speed the development of the nation's transpor
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