Simple Analyzing The Effect Of American Public Land Policy On The Western Agriculture From18^th To19^th Century

Since United States of America after independence, through a series ofmethods, it obtains a large number of lands, which becomes American territories andTerritory. Then, American government frames a series of public land policy, which isprivatization by selling and presentation. America land policy has evolved in thedirection of benefiting the agricultural development, which provides sufficient humanresources, the vast and the free land, it makes western agriculture develop quickly. Atthe same time, land policy to promote agricultural the transformation of productionrelations and productive mode, western agriculture gradually transition to capitalistfarms, and the rise of "livestock kingdom", these lays a solid foundation for theAmerican agricultural modernization.This paper is based on American public land policy as research object from18thto19thCentury, analyzes the positive effect on Western agriculture. This paper has sixchapters, the first chapter clarifies the significance of this paper topic, and the currentresearch status at home and abroad; the second chapter states composition ofAmerican public land and the way of acquisition of land, and analyzes the top threeland policy established in the early American; the third chapter analyzes the evolutionof American public land policy in the nineteenth Century, before the civil war themain way of land policy that is sale and after that the main way of land policy isdonation. At that time the government has also promulgated some additional policy,this reflects that the main features of American public land policy is the combinationof the general development and the individual compensation in the nineteenth Century;the fourth chapter analyzes several important land policies which provides favorable conditions for agricultural development, promote the transformation of theagricultural production relations and productive mode, and promote America westernagricultural transition to capitalism and the formation of the western specialagricultural region;the fifth chapter analyzes western land policy which provides thefavorable conditions for the development of livestock, and expounds the developmentof “American Cattle Empire” and “American Sheep Empire”; the sixth chapterdiscusses the implementation of Land-grant College Act and the establishment ofagricultural education, research and extension system, which promoted thedevelopment of western agricultural science and technology, opened a new era ofAmerican agricultural education.