Ag History Quiz

Who developed many improved varieties of vegetables, fruits, and flowers including the Russet Burbank potato in 1872?

• Jethro Tull
• Joseph Glidden
• Eli Whitney
• Luther Burbank

Who built the first gasoline tractor in 1892?

• Luther Burbank
• John Deere
• John Froelich
• George Washington Carver

What event resulted in acquiring 827,000 miles of land from France west of the Mississippi River?

• Louisiana Purchase
• Dust Bowl
• Green Revolution
• Domestication

Who manufactured steel plows?

• Luther Burbank
• George Washington
• Henry Ford
• John Deere

What is the term for corn, beans, and squash planted together in the same mounds?

• Three Musketeers
• Three Sisters
• Three Broomsticks
• Three Crops

What allowed for the application to claim a federal land grant of 160 acres of public land in the West?

• Louisiana Purchase
• Homestead Act of 1862
• Smith-Hughes Act
• Morrill Act of1862

Who patented barbed wire?

• Joseph Glidden
• John Deere
• Edward Jones
• Eli Whitney

Who invented the cotton gin?

• E.M. Tiffany
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Eli Whitney
• John Deere

What allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges

• Louisiana Purchase
• Homestead Act of 1862
• Smith-Hughes Act
• Morrill Act of1862

What is domestication?

• breeding of animals for human use
• confinement of animals for human use
• taming of animals for human use
• all of the above