AG time line

By Reese Stauffer
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    AG time line

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    The Louisiana Purchase

    Lincoln purchased the Louisiana territory from France and added more land that farmers could farm out west.
  • Agricultural Exports

    Agricultural Exports

    Railroads were created and farms were able to export things quicker.
  • Horse-drawn Reaper

    Horse-drawn Reaper

    Cyrus McCormick made one of the biggest contributions to the success of U.S. agriculture by inventing the horse-drawn reaper.
  • Plantations and Farms

    Plantations and Farms

    Great planters with very large holdings were a small minority among landowners. In 1860, only 2,300 planters 5% owned 100 or more slaves. Thus the landscapes that they created were the exception rather than the rule in the antebellum South. Statistically, a significant percentage of slaves lived and worked on large plantations. Slaves living on plantations developed strong family alliances and ultimately forged a distinct culture.
  • Civil war

    Civil war

    The Civil War destroyed most of the South's Agriculture, the most popular crop during the war was cotton and tobacco. after the slaves were freed the plantation owners started to sharecrop.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    The homestead act gave 160 acres o free land to anyone who was willing to farm it for 5 years.(Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming)
  • USDA

    USDA

    president Abraham Lincoln established the United States a Department of Agriculture at the seat of government.
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    Transportation to the west

    Cowboys drove cattle on trails from texas to the western states
  • Entomology at the USDA

    Entomology at the USDA

    One of the first entomologists (insect scientists) employed by the USDA was Townend Glover. USDA Commissioner Newton motivated Glover to start a museum containing Glover’s extensive collection of insects, as well as models of fruits. Commissioner Newton established an agricultural museum on August 1, 1864, with Glover as curator.
  • post war agriculture

    post war agriculture

    the Civil War destroyed so much of the South and its plantations that farmers started to give parts of their land to slaves that were freed, to tax them more then they made years to make them slaves again.
  • Disease

    Disease

    Scientists created the microscope used to discover diseases among livestock.
  • Food investigation

    Food investigation

    The idea of food investigation became a reality and 10 thousand dollars were put into investigating the food.