Extent of Ag prior to 1700
What were the 2 colonist that influenced Ag in the United States
Native Americans and European colonists
At least 1000 years ago Hawaiians practiced what?
Aquaculture/Farm fishing
Who invented the seed drill?
Jethro Tull
Also known as Jonny Appleseend
John Chapman
Allowed the application to claim a federal land grant of 160 acres of public land in the west
Homestead Act of 1862
Native Americans began to occupy where?
The Mississippi River
In 1493 Christopher Columbus introduced what in the Caribbean
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Calves, goats, sheep, pigs, hens, citrus, melons and several kinds of vegetables
Who manufactured Steel plows
John Deere
Developed the Russet Burbank potato
Luther Burbank
The taming, confinement and breeding of animals and plants for human use is?
Domestication
When did the Native Americans begin to occupy the river?
7,000 years ago
The first settlement of colonist in present day United States was where?
Jamestown, Virginia
Who patented barbed wire
Joseph Glidden
Aided European agricultural revolution by popularizing a 4-year crop rotation with wheat, barley, turnips and clover
Charles Townshend
The acquisition from France of 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River
Louisiana Purchase
Relaying on the cultivation of?
Sunflowers, cucurbits and editable seeds
Corn (Maize), Sweet Potato's, tomato's, pumpkins, gourds, squashes, watermelons, beans, grapes, berries, pecans, black walnuts, peanuts, maple sugar, tobacco and cotton
Promoted his science of crop rotation to the farmers
George Washington Carver
Designed a plow 'the moldboard of least resistance'
Thomas Jefferson
Allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges
Morrill Act of 1862
Its believed Mesoamericans had domesticated what?
Maize (Corn)
What was the cash crop of the south
Tobacco
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Invented the flying Shuttle
John Kay
Name for Corn, beans and squash planted together?
The three sisters