Revolutionary America
America in the Civil War
The Gilded Age
AG in Modern America
AG in Modern America 2
100
Rebellion of Massachusetts Farmers which led to the Constitutional Convention
What is Shays Rebellion?
100
Name one year when the Civil War was fought
What is 1861-1865?
100
It is from this Author's book that we get name for the post Civil War era.
What is the Gilded Age?
100
One of the New Deal programs which brought electricity to Rural America
What is the TVA or REA?
100
The source that powered the first AG revolution in the 20th Century
What is the horse (or draft animals)?
200
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Some thought this novel started the Civil War!
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
Legendary American Hero who symbolized the clash between man and machine
Who is John Henry?
200
1979 action by our government which hurt farm exports and overall hurt the farmer
What is the Grain Embargo?
200
The main feature of the 3rd and current revolution in Agriculture
What is Biotechnology?
300
Biggest early Colonial Rebellion against a corrupt Governor led by a man with a delicious sounding name
What is Bacon's Rebellion
300
His election sparked the Civil war?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Hero and song which makes a legend out of the Train Engineer
Who is Casey Jones?
300
The percent the farmer represents in the population today (roughly)
What is less than 2%?
300
USDA stands for this
What is United States Department of Agriculture?
400
He defended the British Soldiers in the Boston Massacre
Who is John Adams?
400
John Brown's raid which fanned the flames between the North and the South
What is Harper's Ferry?
400
The Standard Oil Baron whose money and influence would shape modern America
Who is John D Rockefeller?
400
The name of the approach used for high production tomato farming out west
What is the systems approach?
400
Some worry these might become "weeds and a plague"
What are bioengineered plants?
500
What Sam Adams group was known as
What is the Sons of Liberty?
500
This act was one of the reasons Kansas would be "bleeding" and a cause of the Civil War
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
500
Pittsburgh Robber barons ignore an engineers recommendation and cause one of the worst disasters in US history.
What is the Johnstown Flood/Southfork Fishing and Hunting Club?
500
US Labor leader who formed the United Farm Worker's Union
Who is Caesar Chavez?
500
The main alternative to biotech farming
What is sustainable agriculture?
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