US Agriculture History
19th-century belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across North America.
Manifest Destiny
A biased or misleading type of information used to shape public opinion, sometimes about farming or wartime food needs.
Propaganda
A farm tool that replaced wooden or iron plows and made breaking prairie sod easier for midwestern farmers.
Steel Plow
The 1906 law that made it illegal to misbrand meat and required sanitary slaughter and processing.
Meat Inspection Act
An estate where crops like coffee, sugar, and tobacco were grown using resident labor.
Plantation
liquid which produced by the natural fermentation of sugar
Ethanol
The practice of sensational investigative reporting that exposes scandalous or corrupt practices; often targeted trusts and big business in the Progressive Era.
Muckraking
areas of Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and Kansas that were affected by severe soil erosion and drought with windstorms in 1930's
Dust Bowl
large increase in crop production for developing countries by introducing fertilizers, pesticides and getting higher yielding crops vs doing it by hand
Green Revolution
The 1862 law that provided land grants to states to create colleges focused on agriculture and mechanics.
Morrill Act
home gardens grown in time of war to help increase food production
Victory Gardens
treaty between Canada, Mexico and USA that eliminated most tariffs
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
act or means of sealing off a place to prevent foods or people from entering or leaving an area
Blockade
British civilian organization that was created during WWI so women could work in agriculture
Women's Land Army
free trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and USA
United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA)