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1492
Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue
Columbus introduces goats, sheep, pigs, hens, fruit and old world vegetable seeds -
1494
Corn
Indians teach Jamestown settlers how to grow corn. -
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Industrial Revolution
Beginning of the Industrial Revolution -
French Soy Bean
US Ambassador Ben Franklin sends soybean seeds back from France -
Baby Mules
George Washington breeds the first mules in the US -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin. Thomas Jefferson invented the moldboard plow. -
Whiskey Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion: western farmers revolt a grain tax -
Erie Canal
Erie Canal is finished -
Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus McCormick invented the grain reaper -
Superphosphate Fertilizer
Sir John Laws founded the commercial fertilizer industry by developing a process for making superphosphate fertilizer -
Rembert & Prescott
Rembert & Prescott developed a mechanical cotton picking machine -
First Department of Agriculture
President Lincoln create the first Department of Agriculture and Morrill Land Grand College Act -
Pokey Fence
Barbed wire is invented -
Tratter
John Froelich invented the first gasoline powers tractor
