Agriculture in AmericaBy, Taylor Barefoot

Thesis

• Agriculture is a good for the United States, because it provides food and supplies that are used in everyday life, not all staple crops such as tobacco are used in big business farming but also in little farms known as subsistence farming, but this all could be changed because of the climate.

Topic sentence 1

• III. Topic Sentence #1: Agriculture and Industry has been an important factor in America all throughout history.

• - Evidence #1: Agriculture has always been important to the United States, not only for its crucial role in sustaining the lives of US citizens but also for its economic value.

• - Evidence #2: People debated about whom agricultural education benefited and who should support it created deep division among southern.

Topic sentence 2

• Topic Sentence #2: Not all agriculture involves growing food to sell to big business but many small farms grow food just to live off of called subsistence farming.

• - Evidence #1: Subsistence farming is agriculture and livestock production that yields all the goods, primarily food, necessary for the survival of a household.

• - Evidence #2: Smallholders often also participate in some trade or need to sell their labor in order to buy additional sources of food.

Topic sentence 3

• Topic Sentence #3 Staple crops are all the crops that are harvested to make money.

• - Evidence #1: In the Carolinas and Georgia, rise cultivation, learned from African slaves, transformed hydrology to suit the needs of another labor-intensive crop.

• - Evidence #2: There are many types of staple crops such as tobacco, rice, corn, cotton, and potatoes.

Topic sentence 4

• Topic Sentence #4 Out of all the crops grown throughout America the most famous would be tobacco.

• - Evidence #1: The relationships among tobacco, humans, and the American environment are ancient.

• - Evidence #2: Tobacco has always been known in American history because there has always been a demand for it.

Topic sentence 5

• Topic Sentence #5: Climate changes in cause big problems in America because farmers can’t grow the foods they need to make moneys.

• - Evidence #1: Global climate change presents one of the greatest threats to agriculture and food security in the 21st century.

• - Evidence #2: Temperature extremes, changes in precipitation patterns lengthened growing seasons, decreased availability of freshwater, desertification, extreme weather, and drought.