FFA
What are the FFA colors?
Blue and gold
What was the purpose of barbed wire?
Keep livestock controlled
True or False. Cotton has played a huge role in the history of our country.
True :)
Who was President during The Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What does FFA stand for?
Future Farmers of America
What has historically served as the foundation crop of American agriculture?
Corn
What year was the cotton gin invented?
1794
What was the purpose of The Civil War?
To abolish slavery
Name the three structures of FFA.
Local, state, and national
What invention made cutting wheat much easier?
Wheat Reaper
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
During the 1800's, 2/3 of America's population lived in the North, Why?
resources and industrialization
In 1988 the official name was changed from Future Farmers of America to...?
The National FFA Organization
What was the 2nd largest in the U.S. until the Civil War?
Cotton
What are the 2 main types of cotton?
Sea island cotton, and Upland cotton
How was agriculture effected by the Civil War?
Farmers left their farms to fight in the war. When they returned, many farms were destroyed.
What is the FFA motto?
Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve.
What was the Hatch Act?
Established agricultural experiment stations, and provided a scientific basis for what was taught in the land-grant colleges
Sea Island Cotton thrived along the coast of what two states?
Georgia and Florida
Due to farmers losing workers, they were forced to do what?
they were forced to downsize farms and to start planting different types of crops that required less human labor