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Homestead Act 1862 - correct answer ✔✔Opened up settlement in the western US, allowing all
American, including freed slaves, to put a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land
Merrill Act 1862 - correct answer ✔✔Provided grants of land to states to finance the
establishment of colleges specializing in "Agriculture and the mechanic arts"
Hatch Act 1887 - correct answer ✔✔Prohibits federal employees, employers of the District of
Colombia and certain employees of state and local government from engaging in partisan
political activity
Smith Lever Act 1914 - correct answer ✔✔established a national Cooperative Extension Service
that extended outreach programs through land-grant universities to educate rural Americans
about advances in agricultural practices and technology
Agronomy - correct answer ✔✔Study of principles and practices of crop population
Cotton is - correct answer ✔✔The most important cash crop in the south, replacing tobacco in
1800
Agrarianism - correct answer ✔✔Farming is the only way to live and the most important thing
anyone can do
What happened in 1803? - correct answer ✔✔Louisiana purchase
, What is a farm? - correct answer ✔✔plot of land devoted to agriculture and to the raising of
crops and domesticated animals
USDAs definition of a farm - correct answer ✔✔Any place which $1000 or more of agricultural
products are sold
Highest paying crop - correct answer ✔✔Corn
What crop grows throughout the year - correct answer ✔✔Wheat
4 main crops - correct answer ✔✔Corn, soybean, wheat, hay
USDA was established by who - correct answer ✔✔Abraham Lincoln in 1862
National Resources and Environmental agencies - correct answer ✔✔Prevent damage to natural
resources and promote good land management
The Food Safety Inspection Service - correct answer ✔✔Inspects meat, poultry, and egg
production
Animal and Plant Health Inspection service (APHIS) - correct answer ✔✔regulates imports into
US, protect against nonnative pest
Top three cereal crops - correct answer ✔✔Wheat, rice, corn
Most of the worlds sorghum is fed to - correct answer ✔✔Humans