Discuss the economic changes that transformed the rural communities of the East and the frontier of the Old Northwest and increasingly knit the two regions together in the two decades preceding the Civil War
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Answer: Farming in the East became more "scientific" and commercial. Eastern capital, settlers, and transportation projects opened up the frontier of the Old Northwest, creating an economic as well as cultural link. Farming in the Northwest switched from corn and hog production for southern markets to wheat production for eastern markets.
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