Question

n the 1870s Georgia's logging and timber industry became the MOST profitable in the United States because of the expanded use of

Answer 1

Forests have been important to Georgians since General Oglethorpe landed in 1733 on the shoreline of what is now Savannah. ... The 1870 census showed that timber was already becoming a profitable industry for Georgia with the annual timber value rising from $2.4 million to more than $4.0 million in that decade.

Answer 2

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Explanation:

Wood is used to make many things—from homes to furniture to toothpicks. The lumber industry transforms the trees of the forests into the lumber from which other products are made. Its tasks include logging—cutting trees down, sawing them into logs, and carrying the logs to the sawmill to be sawed into boards and timbers, or lumber.