Agricultural Revolution

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Testing knowledge of the agricultural revolution which occurred alongside the industrial revolution 1750-1850, tests key dates/facts and historiography
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Question 1

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What percentage of the British workforce in 1750 worked in agriculture and what did this drop by 1850?
Answer
  • 1750: 100% 1850:50%
  • 1750: 75% 1850:25%
  • 1750: 50% 1850:25%

Question 2

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In 1840, agriculture was still the largest sector on the economy, true or false?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 3

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Britain was producing 10 acres per bushel in medieval times, what had the grown to by c.1800?
Answer
  • 15-20
  • 20-22
  • 18-20

Question 4

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In 1750, Britain net export was food, by 1850 her net import was food, what percentage of food was imported?
Answer
  • 12%
  • 15%
  • 16%

Question 5

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Who states that by 1600, 50% of farmland was already enclosed?
Answer
  • Wordie
  • Brenner
  • Crafts

Question 6

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Between what years did food prices soar as agriculture could not keep up?
Answer
  • 1730-1800
  • 1750-1815
  • 1760-1815

Question 7

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What year was parliamentary enclosure introduced?
Answer
  • 1800
  • 1750
  • 1815

Question 8

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Which historian claims that due to agricultures ability to cater to a grower population allows it can be called a 'revolution'?
Answer
  • Brenner
  • Overton
  • E. L. Jones

Question 9

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What did Crafts claim?
Answer
  • Agriculture adequately supplied the country's wants until the mid 18th C.
  • Agriculture grew faster than most industries and released labour into industry
  • As a capitalist state emerged there was a decline in the peasantry

Question 10

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Which two sets of historians claim agriculture had a damaging effect on industry?
Answer
  • O'Brien and Allen
  • Kerridge
  • Allen

Question 11

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E. L. Jones claims that new techniques introduced into agriculture between 1600-1750, alternative meant what?
Answer
  • Combined arable and classic farming using animals (sheep) to re fertilise baron land
  • Turnips introduced into crop rotations and used to feed animals

Question 12

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E. L. Jones claims that new techniques introduced into agriculture between 1600-1750, convertible meant what?
Answer
  • Combined arable and classic farming using animals (sheep) to fertilise baron land
  • Grew Turnips as a fodder crop to use to feed animals

Question 13

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Who claimed there was two revolutions ins farming, the 'yeoman's revolution' and the 'landlords'?
Answer
  • Kerridge
  • Allen
  • Wordie

Question 14

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Which three historians state that AR ran alongside the IR and success was due to modernising Landlords (Jethro Tull and Turnip Townsend) and parliamentary enclosure?
Answer
  • E. L. Thompson
  • Toynbee
  • Overton
  • Mantoux
  • Lord Ernle

Question 15

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Which two historians downplay innovation and claim in came later?
Answer
  • Jones and Wordie
  • Allen and Kerridge
  • Overton and Thompson
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