Agricultural & Industrial Revolution

Which answer best describes the contributions of technology to the agricultural revolution?

• Agriculture production went down due to industrial revolution

• Agricultural production stayed the same due the industrial revolution

• Agricultural production increased as a result of the advances made during the industrial revolution

• Agricultural production saw some gains, but were hampered due to famine caused by industrial revolution

A down side to the agricultural revolution was the production of cash crops and not what type of crops?

• Groceries

• Stocked crops

• Subsistence crops

• Cash valued crop

One benefit to the agricultural revolution was the people did the following when moving to the cities?

• Increased the number of jobs on the farm

• Increased employment in the cities due to urbanization and industrialization

• Minorities moved from the cities to rural areas for jobs

• The wealthy continued to use sharecropping as a method of control

With the increase in food production, which of the following occurred?

• Population decrease

• Population increase

• Population stabilization

• Population with the demand of goods like cloth

Jethro Tull invented what device that was used to save time and effort in planting seeds?

• Seed planter

• Seed drill

• Seed spreader

• Seed combine

During the four stages of the Industrial Revolution. Which saw the increase in population?

• Stage 1

• Stage 2

• Stage 3

• Stage 4

In what year is the first record of the Industrial Revolution starting?

• 1760

• 1870

• 1969

• 1969 to the present

The primary use of the steam engine invented by James Watt was to remove what from mines?

• Bad air

• Water to prevent flooding

• Pump air into the mines

• Steam power could run air hammers

Horsepower is equivalent to one horse doing how much work in foot pounds?

• 1/12,000 foot pounds

• 1/25,000 foot pounds

• 1/33,000 foot pounds

• 1/40,000 foot pounds

Travel and increase in commerce with the use of steam power was increased by what inventor?

• James Watt

• Jethro Tull

• Robert Fulton

• Bill Bo Baggins