DBQ - Document Based Question
Answer the following DBQ based on your analysis of the NC State Technician article and the primary sources from Tobacco Transplanting, Tobacco Harvesting, and Tobacco Curing.
NC State failed as a land-grant college to help improve the lives of small farmers. Use the Technician article or other primary sources from Tobacco Transplanting, Harvesting, and Curing to support or refute this statement. Analyze the change over time of tobacco production. Who benefited from mechanization and what were the consequences to farm laborers? How did the mechanization of agriculture encourage the transition from small-time farming to commercial agriculture?
Item #33282: "Report Hits NCSU for Ag Research"
Analyze and Interpret this Primary Source.
This issue of NC State's student newspaper, the Technician, features an article based on a national report declaring NC State failed as a land-grant university to help improve the lives of small farmers. This issue features two responses to the headlining article refuting that claim.
The three articles you will read are titled: "Report hits NCSU for Ag research," "State denies charges," and "The small farmer and land grant universities."