The Land of the Free
The man who signed a law creating the USDA.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
This man invented the Cotton Gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The traditional Indigenous companion planting technique from North and Central America that grows three crops together in a mutually supportive system
What is the Three Sister Method?
The revolution that saved millions of lives using high yield varieties, synthetic chemicals, and controlled irrigation.
What is the Green Revolution?
The first commercial meat packer.
Who is William Pynchon?
The act that established land-grant institutions.
What is the Morrill Land Grant College Act?
This is the man who invented the mechanical reaper.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
The multi-generational evolutionary process where humans gain control and care over wild plant and animal species, selectively breeding them for traits like docility, larger size, or utility, which permanently alters their genetics and behavior
What is domestication?
The most important crop in 1732 Virginia.
What is Tobacco?
The most popular animal product after the Civil War.
What is Beef?
The act that provided federal funds to support vocational agriculture in agriculture, industrial trades, and home economics.
What is the Smith-Hughes Act?
This man invented the steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
The man who brought cattle and horses to Florida in 1521.
Who is Ponce De Leon?
The man who is known for developing hundreds of uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.
Who is George Washington Carver?
Cincinnati's nickname in 1850.
What is Porkopolis?
The war that marked the first time American railroads were used extensively and allowed commerce to be streamlined.
What is the Civil War?
This man invented the combine.
Who is Hiram Moore?
The widespread transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The practice of planting different types of crops sequentially on the same plot of land across growing seasons to restore soil nutrients, break pest and disease cycles, and reduce weed pressure.
What is crop rotation?
America's meat-packing hub in 1742.
What is Boston?
The man who got the first US patent for barbed wire.
Who is Lucien B Smith?
The man who made a better version of barbed wire by twisting double strands that locked barbs in place.
Who is Joseph Glidden
The three crops grown together in the Three Sister Method.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
The man who led the Green Revolution
Who is Norman Borlaug?
The man who started the first large scale pork packing plant in Cincinnati in 1818.
Who is Elisha Mills?