what were the advantages and disadvantages of the use of mechanical ha...
Advantages:-
=> It reduced the dependency of Landowners on the Labours and at the same time increased the agricultural output.
=> It could work faster than the labours which saved time.
=> It brought about a period of prosperity for the Americans.
=> It allowed the farmers to turn more and more areas into agricultural fields.
=> Introduction of mechanical harvesters became one of the ways through which, U.S.A became the bread basket of the world.
Disadvantages:-
=> For poor farmers, machines brought miseries. Many of them had thought that after buying the machines they would earn profits and pay the loans that they had taken from the bank to buy these machines. But unfortunately they couldn't pay their debts and as a result they had to abandon their farms and search for jobs in another place.
=> It reduced the job opportunities and as a result labours had no jobs to depend upon for their survival.
=> It served as the base for the Great Agrarian Depression of 1930s.
=> It became another reason for turning The Bread Basket Of The World into Dust Bowl.