![]() ![]() 1785, 1787-Ordinances of 17 provided for survey, sale, and government of northwestern lands.1776-Continental Congress offered land grants for service in the Continental Army.18th century-Small family farms predominated, except for plantations in southern coastal areas housing ranged from crude log cabins to substantial frame, brick, or stone houses farm families manufactured many necessities.18th century-Ideas of progress, human perfectibility, rationality, and scientific improvement flourished in the New World. ![]() ![]() 18th century-Tobacco was the chief cash crop of the South.18th century-English farmers settled in New England villages Dutch, German, Swedish, Scotch-Irish, and English farmers settled on isolated Middle Colony farmsteads English and some French farmers settled on plantations in Tidewater and on isolated Southern Colony farmsteads in Piedmont Spanish immigrants, mostly lower-middle-class and indentured servants, settled the Southwest and California.17th and 18th centuries-enslaved African people introduced grain and sweet sorghum, melons, okra, and peanuts.crops from Europe included clover, alfalfa, timothy, small grains, and fruits and vegetables 17th and 18th centuries-Crops borrowed from Native Americans included maize, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkins, gourds, squashes, watermelons, beans, grapes, berries, pecans, black walnuts, peanuts, maple sugar, tobacco, and cotton white potatoes indigenous to South America.17th and 18th centuries-All forms of domestic livestock, except turkeys, were imported at some time.1619-First enslaved African people brought to Virginia by 1700, enslaved people were displacing southern indentured servants.17th century-Small land grants commonly made to individual settlers large tracts often granted to well-connected colonists.16th century-Spanish cattle introduced into the Southwest.But in the 1790s, the horse-drawn cradle and scythe were introduced, the first of several inventions. All sowing was accomplished using a hand-held hoe, reaping of hay and grain with a sickle, and threshing with a flail. During the latter part of the 18th century, farmers relied on oxen and horses to power crude wooden plows. ![]()
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