Farmers in the Revolutionary War by Alexander Johnson https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq en-us 2016-02-08 14:16:22 UTC 2016-03-03 13:55:25 UTC hello@padlet.com lcole11 https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/93797556 2016-02-08 14:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/93797556 lcole11 https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94044884 2016-02-09 14:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94044884 lcole11 https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94047166 2016-02-09 14:15:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94047166 Farmers in the Revolutionary War ajohnson60 https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94049608         Farmers were concerned mainly with surviving and trying to improve the lives of himself and his family.  In order to make money, they grew some type of cash crop that could be sold in order to buy needed tools, livestock, and household goods which could not be produced on the farm. In the Middle and Southern colonies, the cash crop was usually tobacco. Towards the end of the 18th century, they began to grow grains like wheat, oats, and corn. They also grew beans, peas, carrots, and cabbage. Indentured servants and slaves would work in the fields. They raised pigs, cows, chickens and other fowl for food and also had horses and oxen to pull carts. One bad thing about being a farmer is that farm production will be influenced by market demand. One other thing was that it was very physically demanding, and your crop's health. 

]]> 2016-02-09 14:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94049608 Farmers in the Revolutionary War lrupp https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94053945 One early type of plow used in the United States was only a crooked stick with a sharpened iron tip attached, sometimes with rawhide, which simply roughened the ground. Plows of this sort were in use as late as 1812. However, plows designed to turn a deep trench for planting seeds were needed. Early attempts were often just huge chunks of strong wood, roughly cut into shape, with a wrought-iron point barely attached. The moldboards were rough and none of the curves were the same.
At that time, country blacksmiths made plows only on order and not very many had patterns for plows. Plows could turn a trench in soft ground only if the oxen or horses were strong enough. Unfortunately, friction was such a great problem that three men and several animals were required to turn a trench when the ground was hard.

]]> 2016-02-09 14:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94053945 Scythes  ajohnson60 https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94313537 Scythes were used to cut grass, cut hay, grain, and weeds during the Revolutionary War.]]> 2016-02-10 14:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94313537 Plows lrupp https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94316704 This tool was a plow farmers used in the time period of the Revolutionary War.]]> 2016-02-10 14:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94316704 Axes lcole11 https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94316783 These are different types of axes used in the Revolutionary War by farmers.]]> 2016-02-10 14:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnson60/wm9ym42zu9eq/wish/94316783