17th and 18th century

  • Agriculture in Russia

    Agriculture in Russia
    Portions of Russia got heavy rains, and by the end of the growing season all their crops have failed. The agriculture has failed in the early 1600s for Russia . This is important because due to the failure there were widespread starvation in 1602 and 1603.
  • Colonial Farming technologies

    Colonial Farming technologies
    As the century was coming to an ending, the farming technology has advanced from hand tools to tools that needed horses and steam power. It important because it made everything easier and faster. People got to get more stuff done on the farms and they would be less tired.
  • Agriculture in Virginia

    Agriculture in Virginia
    Tobacco was the most popular money crop. It's important because almost every farm had it because the sent it off on many ships to other countries. It made an impact on farmers because they started growing other crops and traded those too.
  • Tobacco Trade

    Tobacco Trade
    Tobacco growing depended on the weather conditions. In order to grow tobacco farmers needed a warm climate with rich, well-drained soil. This impacted Agriculture by George Washington to diversify their plantations and switch their production into growing grains.
  • Parliamentary Acts

    Parliamentary Acts
    These laws regulated traded regulated trade from the American colonies by requiring that goods exported to England be sent on British ships. This was important because the colonies had to transport their most expensive products back to england. America got impacted by taxes.
  • The stamp Act

    The stamp Act
    It made getting property harder and made the taxes more expensive, so some people lost their land. (The land got more expensive so some people couldn't afford it).
  • Population and productivity

    Population and productivity
    The importance was that most of the population was farmers. It was all the people doing labor.
  • The whiskey rebellion

    The whiskey rebellion
    A farmers' revolt against taxes on grain. This was important because were going to try and not pay taxes.
  • Cast-iron Plow

    Cast-iron Plow
    Charles Newbold patents the first cast iron plow. This is important because it helps the farmers work more. It impacts agriculture because they can get more crops faster to trade.
    https://www.agclassroom.org/ganarchive/timeline/farm_tech.htm
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Eli Whitney created cotton gin, with the use of a cotton gin, a single person could clean the amount of cotton balls as 50 slaves working by hand. This was important because it made work go faster and it impacted the economy of South Greatly.
  • The first Tax

    The first Tax
    The federal government authorized it's first tax on a domestic product in order to reduce the national debt. This was important because the farming and agriculture grew/expanded wordly.
  • Public Land Act

    Public Land Act
    It was important because the Public Land Act opened uncontested western lands and territories.It impacted the farmers by people wanting to expand to the United States.