Name that Innovator
Patented the Cotton Gin
What is Eli Whitney
What was the name of the executive order that declared enslaved people in the Confederate states to be freed.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Revolutionized home canning
What is the Mason Jar
How many Ag Revelations were there?
What is 3!
Which state is considered the Apple state?
Is know for his research with peanuts
George Washington Carver
This Act provided a grant of 160acres of public land in the West to any person who was a US citizen, had never taken up Arms against the US, and was 21 year old or the head of their house hold.
What is The Homestead Act of 1862
This type of Tilling was used to prevent and reduce soil erosion
What is low till or no till
This Ag Revolution occurred along with the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries.
What is the 2nd Ag Revolution
Why did Lincoln create an independent US department of Agriculture to be headed by a commissioner without Cabinet status?
What is it was not seen at a policy making agency but rather an effort to boost the economy on the brink of war
Developed a plow considered “The mold board of least resistance”
What is Thomas Jefferson
What year did Lincoln establish the independent U.S. Department of Agriculture to be headed by a commissioner without Cabinet status?
Farmers were afraid to use this plow because they thought it would poison their soil.
The Cast Iron Plow
Sometimes called the green revolution because of the increased farm yields seen during this time.
The 3rd Ag Revolution
If I were a great inventor I would want what type of vegetable named after me.
What is a Potato
- shout out the Luther Burbank and the russet potato
Is considered the Father of modern genetics.
Gregor Mendel
This Act allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges that would teach military tactics, engineering, and agriculture.
What is the Morrill Act of 1862
This machine turned automatically to face changing wind directions and maintained a uniform speed by changing the pitch of its sails
What is the self governing Wind Mill
The rapid development of aquaculture
What is The Blue revolution
What Agricultural community still uses twine binders
What is The Amish
This person popularizing a four-year crop rotation with wheat, barley, turnips, and clover
what is Charles Townshend
This Act provided fast transportation of crops and other goods across the US
In 1935 What was created with the primary goal of promoting rural electrification.
What is The Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
is associated with an increase in machine use and commercialization through the development of new inventions and technology.
What is the Homestead Act