Agricultural Revolution

Question 1

Where did the industrial revolution begin?

Answer 1

Britain

Question 2

What happened when more food was available? And when did this happen?

Answer 2

The population had increased, this was in the 1700’s

Question 3

What happened when the population increased?

Answer 3

More goods and services were needing to be produced… This was the agricultural revolution.

Question 4

Did food prices increase? If so, why?

Answer 4

Yes, farmers could make profits. They sold food for more money

Question 5

How much of the land was owned by wealthy people?

Answer 5

80-90 percent

Question 6

What were poor people called?

Answer 6

Squatters

Question 7

Where did squatters build?

Answer 7

They built on small areas of waste land

Question 8

What is the open field system?

Answer 8

The open field system was farming that involved three large fields. Which farmers had a strip each

Question 9

What was planted in the first year of the open field system?

Answer 9

Wheat. To make flour for bread

Question 10

What was planted second in the open field system?

Answer 10

Barley. For the live stock

Question 11

What was planted in the third year of the open field system?

Answer 11

The field was left fallow. So that the soil can be uncultivated, so the soil can recover its fertility

Question 12

In the open field system what happened after all three years?

Answer 12

The process begun again.

Question 13

Was the village common an important part of the open field system?

Answer 13

Yes

Question 14

Was was the village common?

Answer 14

It was a large piece of land to local people with common rights could use

Question 15

Were there any disadvantages to the open field system? If so what were they?

Answer 15

Yes, 
Wasted space (not all available land was used) 

Wasted time (farmers walked long distance)

Limited quality and quantity of live stock ( rarely enough fodder to feed animals)

Question 16

What was the enclosed system?

Answer 16

Was the repackaging and fencing of land that had been held. Making sure all strips are even amounts

Question 17

What is the enclosed system?

Answer 17

It is is the rearrangement of fields to make sure the land was equally laid out

Question 18

Did squatters have rights?

Answer 18

No they were usually evicted

Question 19

What did the agricultural revolution actually do?

Answer 19

It made it possible to produce food for a large urban population

Question 20

Why did people move from the country to the city?

Answer 20

To find jobs/work

Question 21

Joe easy was it to find a job after moving?

Answer 21

When the industry grew in Britain, cheap labour was available

Question 22

We’re competitions for jobs hard?

Answer 22

Yes the competition for jobs were fierce

Question 23

How long did they work after they found a job?

Answer 23

They worked long hours and were paid low wages

Question 24

What was life like during the agricultural revolution?

Answer 24

Families had to leave to get more opportunities

Question 25

What inventions were made during the agricultural revolution?

Answer 25

Improvements in farm technology

Seed drill

Plow/moldboard

Question 26

What was invented in 1752?

Answer 26

Ben Franklin invented electricity

Question 27

What was invented in 1767? And by who?

Answer 27

In 1767 James Hargreaves invented the spinning Jenny.

Question 28

What was so important about the spinning Jenny?

Answer 28

It meant that one worker could operate several spools of cotton at once

Question 29

What happened in the nineteenth century?

Answer 29

Cotton mills were powered by another invention

Question 30

What was invented in 1776? And by who?

Answer 30

The steam engine by James watt

Question 31

Why was the steam engine important?

Answer 31

It was a symbol of the industrial revolution

Question 32

When did the steam engine last?

Answer 32

It lasted until the twentieth century

Question 33

Why were medical discoveries important?

Answer 33

It helped doctors understand how the body worked

Question 34

Who invented in 2726 and what was it?

Answer 34

In 1726, lady Mary invented the inoculation to Europe.

It was a small dose of a disease, this was to build immunity to it

Question 35

What was invented in 1796? (Medical)

Answer 35

In 1796, Edward Jenner developed a safer method of vaccination.

This was close to the 18th century

Question 36

Why was Edward jenners vaccination safer than lady Mary?

Answer 36

Because lady Mary (inoculation) still have people disease.

Whereas, Edward jenners vaccination built immunity to the disease and no one was sick