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The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.
History [ edit ] Built in 1840, the plantation was purchased in 1843 by Edmund Ruffin , a Virginia planter and a pioneer in agricultural improvements; he also published an agricultural journal in the 1840s named the Farmer's Register.
Land-Grant Agricultural and Mechanical College Act of 1862: Long title: An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Nicknames: Morrill Act of 1862: Enacted by: the 37th United States Congress: Effective: July 2, 1862: Citations; Public law ...
Soil exhaustion as a factor in the agricultural history of Virginia and Maryland, 1606–1860 (1926) online edition; Gray, Lewis Cecil. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 vol (1933), classic in-depth history online edition; Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan Roll (1967), a famous study of plantation slavery. Genovese ...
Localised climate change is the favoured explanation for the origins of agriculture in the Levant. [1] When major climate change took place after the last ice age (c. 11,000 BC), much of the earth became subject to long dry seasons. [29] These conditions favoured annual plants which die off in the long dry season, leaving a dormant seed or tuber.
For the Southern farmer a chief concrete evil was the crop-lien system, mortgages on their future crops for furnished supplies by which cotton farmers fell into debt to country merchants. In the North, agricultural labor forces opposed a wide range of capitalistic legislation in solidarity with other industries, notably legislation sought by ...
Donald Trump, getting history and economics very wrong. Indeed, he seems to know one thing about the 1890s in America: That it was a period of high tariffs.
1870 - Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia are readmitted to the union; 1871 – Great Chicago Fire; 1871 – Treaty of Washington with the British Empire regarding Canada; 1871 - The New York Times published evidence of Tweed's rampant greed. 1871 - Civil Service Reform Act passes; 1871 - Ku Klux Klan Act; 1872 – Yellowstone National ...