WorksheetsAgricultural Revolution Practice
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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 18th 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 18th 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
The English enclosure movement ultimately resulted in:
More land for a greater number of farmers
Fewer opportunities for the well-off tenant farmers
The concentration of landowning in the hands of a tiny minority
Opportunity for the landless laborer to purchase small farms
The agricultural improvements of the mid-eighteenth century were based on the elimination of:
Livestock farming
The open-field system
Rotation of fields
Nitrogen-producing plants, such as peas and beans
The mercantilist attitude toward the role of state was that:
The government should regulate the economy for the state's benefit
Governmental power should be increase at the expense of private profit
Using governmental economic power to help private interests in unethical
The economy should be left to operate according to its natural laws
New farming system consisting of crop rotation and the use of nitrogen-fixing crops caught on quickly in:
England & Holland
Russia & France
Italy & Spain
Scandinavia & Denmark
A fair description of the European population before 1700 would be that it:
Was remarkably uniform in its growth
Increased steadily on account of very young marriages and large families
Decreased slightly on account of war, famine, and disease
Grew slowly and erratically as a result of a cyclical pattern of growth and decline
