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Columbus introduces goats, sheep, pigs, hens, fruit and old world vegetable seeds -
Indians teach Jamestown settlers how to grow corn. -
Beginning of the Industrial Revolution
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US Ambassador Ben Franklin sends soybean seeds back from France -
George Washington breeds the first mules in the US -
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin. Thomas Jefferson invented the moldboard plow. -
Whiskey Rebellion: western farmers revolt a grain tax -
Erie Canal is finished -
Cyrus McCormick invented the grain reaper -
Sir John Laws founded the commercial fertilizer industry by developing a process for making superphosphate fertilizer -
Rembert & Prescott developed a mechanical cotton picking machine
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President Lincoln create the first Department of Agriculture and Morrill Land Grand College Act -
Barbed wire is invented -
John Froelich invented the first gasoline powers tractor
