US history CH 18

The _______ was a great age of free-enterprise capitalism marked by major technological advances and unprecedented industrial expansion

• Digital Age
• Information Revolution
• Technological Era
• Age of Industry

What farm tool bound grain in bundles and deposited it in stacks?

• Twine binder

• Twine harvester

• Seed drill
• Plow

What company was the major seller of twine binders?

• Peabody

• Carnegie

• Rockefeller

• McCormick

Name the three kinds of tractors that began to replace horses and mules for pulling farm equipment?

• steam tractor, gasoline tractor, diesel tractor
• manual tractor, hydraulic tractor, electric tractor

• metal tractor, plastic tractor, carbon tractor

• red tractor, blue tractor, green tractor

What is planting a different crop each year to avoid depleting the soil of minerals?

• Monoculture farming
• Soil enrichment
• Crop rotation
• Crop diversification

What is plowing furrows to follow the curves of a hill called?

• Vertical plowing
• Contour plowing
• Random plowing
• Diagonal plowing

Who produced many new and better varieties of fruits, vegetables, and flowers including the potato?

• Booker T. Washington

• George Washington Carver

• Gregor Mendel

• Luther Burbank

Who found a variety of wheat in Russia that could grow with little rainfall?

• Vladimir Lenin

• Mark Carleton

• Nikolai Vavilov
• Gregor Mendel

What did Congress establish in 1862 to operate experimental farms, conduct research on plant and animal diseases, and develop new varieties of crops suitable for specific kinds of soil?

• Bureau of Plant Industry
• Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• National Agricultural Research Institute
• Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

What act provided land to states for the establishment of colleges that would specialize in the agricultural and mechanical sciences?

• Morrill Act of 1862
• Smith-Lever Act of 1914
• Land Grant Act of 1890
• Homestead Act of 1862