What were post roads and how did they affect farmers

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  1. What was the Gilded age?
  2. What was 'Reconstruction' and the various versions of Reconstruction?
  3. What phrase came to represent the failure of Reconstruction and why?
  4. When was the first Civil Rights Act passed and did the President support it?
  5. Southern Homestead Act of 1866? 
  6. What were labor issues in the south? 
  7. What was sharecropping in the South and which crop was usually 'shared'? How does that idea compare from the past to today?
  8. What was the role of the furnishing merchants and typically who were they?
  9. What happened to sheep production and sheep farmers in the North? How did farming and agriculture change in the north?  What helped that change?
  10. What were advances and declines in agriculture in the east?
  11. What was the cattle activity during the Gilded Age (ie cattle drives to which towns, etc.) 
  12. What was Texas Fever and how did it influence the cattle drives?
  13. How were the railroads helpful to marketing cattle? Who was Joseph McCoy?
  14. Why did cattle associations form and what were some things they did?
  15. Who was Joseph Glidden and Henderson Luelling and what were they known for?
  16. Why did so many settlers fail when they came from the east and settled the west between 1870 - 1890?
  17. Oklahoma and why was it available for the great land rush?
  18. Immigration into the Great Plains and what did they bring with them of great agricultural value? (hint - German Mennonites)
  19. What impact did the Gold Rush have on agriculture in California? What were riparian rights, prior appropriation and the Wright Irrigation Act?
  20. Homestead Act of 1862? Timber Culture Act? Desert Land Act? Timber and Stone Act?
  21. When did the Department of Agriculture come into existence? Who was the first commissioner?
  22. What was the Federal Margarine Act of 1886 about? How did that influence the Department of Agriculture and Division of Chemistry? When did the federal tax on margarine end?
  23. What did the Morrill Land-Grant Act and Hatch Act do? 
  24. What was the 'horse killer plow'? What did a reaper-binder do?
  25. Patrons of Husbandry or the Grange? Why was it originally formed and what did it do?
  26. What was the 'Golden Age' and how did WWI influence grain prices?
  27. What led to the Dust Bowl and why did prices drop after WWI?
  28. Most farmers found themselves continuing to grow cotton in the South after the Civil War even though diversification was being advocated - why?    What happened to change this?
  29. What was the Black Patch War about?
  30. What were truck crops and why did they increase in the North? 
  31. What 'made more farmers honest than the Bible' in the North? What were symbols of good dairying?
  32. Introduction of soybeans? Where from? What were they used for?
  33. Why were South Dakota farmers called 'stickers'?
  34. Why did they say 'Wheat will win the war'?
  35. Why was a Fruit Grower's Exchange formed?  What was the brand created and why? 
  36. What types of labor were used in the farming in California?  How did this change over time?
  37. What was the Reclamation Act about?  How did that directly influence Kansas? What were some of the dams created in Kansas?
  38. What did the Kinkaid Act involve and where?  Stock Raising Homestead Act?
  39. What were steam engines typically used for and why?
  40. How did the tractor come about? Who were the first manufacturers?
  41. Why did it take so long for cotton harvesting equipment to advance?
  42. Why did WWI stimulate the adoption of combines?
  43. How did hybrid corn come about?  First companies which sold the hybrid seeds?
  44. What was George Washington Carver known for? Where did he grow up?
  45. Who was Henry A. Wallace? Marion Dorset? Kanred wheat?
  46. Smith-Lever Act? What were clubs which stemmed from this act?
  47. Farmers Union - why did it attack (verbally) land-grant colleges?
  48. What were the activities of the NPL, Farmer's Union, Farmers Alliance, Farm Bureau and Farmers Holiday Association? 
  49. Agriculture Marketing Act?
  50. What were 'post roads' and how did they affect farmers and farming?
  51. How did the field of veterinary medicine develop? What was the first veterinarian college?  Where were veterinarian colleges found after 1862 and why?

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