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FFA
1850-1877
1600s
Life on the farm
Agriculture 1900s
100
Blue and Yellow
What are the FFA organization colors?
100
1861-1865
What is when the Civil War took place.
100
These people taught the settlers how to grow crop.
Who is the Indians or Native Americans.
100
Ex-slaves and poor workers who worked in the tobacco and cotton fields.
What is Sharecropping.
100
The Act passed in 1906 to benefit America.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Law Act.
200
Future Farmers of America
What does FFA stand for?
200
Abraham Lincoln
Who is the president that created the USDA.
200
Jamestown, Virginia
What is the first permanent English settlement.
200
This was important for the farmers to be able to sell their crops to the westward part of the country.
What is railroads / trains.
200
The Bread Basket
What the Great Plains were known as.
300
George Washington Birthday week
The FFA week that is celebrated on this US President's birthday.
300
This gave 160 acres to farmers to farm for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862.
300
Tobacco
What was the first cash crop.
300
To farm crops such as hay and wheat in dry lands without irrigation.
What is dry farming.
300
The head of Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T. Washington
400
The Horizon
What is the FFA publication that later changed to.
400
Morrill Act 2 of 1862
What is the act that funded black agricultural colleges.
400
The Indians taught the settlers how to grow these crops.
What was Corn, pumpkin, and squash.
400
This organization encouraged farmers to increase food production.
What is U.S. Food Admininstration or USDA.
400
They wanted to regulate food to ensure food safety and food quality.
Who is the USDA.
500
1925
What is the year Future Farmers of America was established?
500
This organization was created to collect, analyze, and deliver information to the public on agriculture.
What is the purpose of the United States Department of Agriculture.
500
The settlers did this with the seeds.
What is stored them for next year.
500
This doctor made it her purpose to come up with scientific solutions to improve the lives for rural families.
Who is Dr. Louise Stanley.
500
The depression that was the beginning of the Great Depression in the 1920s.
What is the Agriculture depression.