Agricultural Revolution Practice

The passage most clearly shows the influence of which of the following trends in 17th & 18th century England?

• Agricultural land was controlled by the landed gentry and nobility through legislation passed in Parliament

• Control of agricultural lands was maintained by small independent farmers and tenants.

• Enclosure of lands was accomplished by the landed gentry despite efforts by Parliament to protect the rights of landless peasants.

• Enclosure of lands encouraged industrial workers in cities to abandon factories and move back to rural areas.

Which of the following groups in the 18th century would most likely have disagreed with the sentiments in the passage?

• Parliament

• Levelers

• Puritans

• Chartists

By the mid-18th century, developments in agriculture reflected in the passage led to which of the following trends in England?

• Weakening influence of the landed gentry on the policies passed by Parliament.

• Commercialization of agriculture, which benefited large landholders at the expense of the peasant class.

• Unification of the middle class in support of the expansion of political rights for the working class.

• Strengthening of the class of free commoners who owned small plots of land

Term used to describe the 18th century rural industry:

• Mestizos

• Cottage industry or the "Putting Out" system

• Open-field system

• Laissez-faire

The transformation of large number of small peasant farmers into landless rural wage earners.

• Navigation Acts

• Proletarianization

• Crop Rotation

• Mercantilism

People of Spanish descent born in America.

• Creoles

• Mestizos

• Commons

• Proles

The system by which farmers would rotate the types of crops grown in each field as to not deplete the soil of its natural resources.

• Mercantilism

• Proletarianization

• Crop Rotation

• Creole

The period from the mid-seventeenth century on in Europe during which great agricultural progress was made and the fallow system was gradually eliminated.

• Agricultural Revolution

• Proletarianization

• Crop rotation

• Mercantilism

Dutch agricultural innovation in the 18^th century was due to:

• The movement of people from cities to rural areas

• Following British innovations

• Population growth and extensive urbanization

• The discovery of the open field system

Which of the following is a characteristic of 18^th century economic change?

• Decreased world trade

• The decline of the cottage system of textile production

• The creation of more common lands and open fields for production

• The increase in both population and food supply