. A history of the United States. es have been found for petroleum? What is the principal usefor gasoline? Describe the gas-engine. Where is it employed? 11. What change has taken place in the management of railroads and facto-ries? What is a trust? Name some of the more successful ones. 12. What cities are famous for some special kind of manufacturing? EXERCISES 1. Write a paper on the changes which have taken place in the work of thehousehold. Seepages 125-129, 250-254, 299-300. 2. Visit some local factory, telephone system, electric light or power plant,or street railway system, and write a
. A history of the United States. es have been found for petroleum? What is the principal usefor gasoline? Describe the gas-engine. Where is it employed? 11. What change has taken place in the management of railroads and facto-ries? What is a trust? Name some of the more successful ones. 12. What cities are famous for some special kind of manufacturing? EXERCISES 1. Write a paper on the changes which have taken place in the work of thehousehold. Seepages 125-129, 250-254, 299-300. 2. Visit some local factory, telephone system, electric light or power plant,or street railway system, and write a paper about its history. 3. Draw a map of the township showing the telephone lines, electric lightand power lines, interurban car lines, and give the dates of construction ofeach. 4. What changes have taken place in the method of heating American houses?See pages 122-123, 369. Important Date : Learn the date of the invention mentioned in this chapter which the ma-jority ot the class believe to be the most important. CHAPTER XLII. THE NEW SOUTH The Southern Farmer. — As the plantation system brokedown, the planters generally moved into the cities. Somehad the courage to start anew in another business. Theirsons became the business men, the lawyers, and the physi-cians of the community. »^,.fmMa The planta-tions weredivided intosmall farms,and either soldor rented tothe freedmen or to farmers who before the war had been too poor toown slaves. These white men with small farms found cottongrowing profitable for the first time. They were no longerobhged to compete with the owners of large plantations usinggangs of slaves. As they prospered they rented or purchasedmore land. They also bought the newly invented machines,cotton-seed planters and stalk cutters. They now raise abouthalf the cotton, the other half being raised by southern cotton crop is three-fourths of all the cottonraised in the world. Renewing the Land. — For a long time the southernfarmer had trouble
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