The agricultural Revolution

Question 0

How did Agriculture improve

Answer 0

Enclosure
New machinery
Improvements in livestock
The four field system

Question 1

How did the Agricultural revolution lead to increase in Britains population

Answer 1

Improvements in agriculture meant an increase in food available which led to food becoming cheaper and available to poor families. So families had more children because they they would have enough to eat.

Question 2

What was the agricultural revolution

Answer 2

During 18th century when there was changes in the way food was produced

Question 3

What is enclosure

Answer 3

When farmers put fences or hedges around their fields

Question 4

Who is Jethro Tull

Answer 4

Inventor of the seed drill machine for sowing seeds in the soil.

Question 5

Who is Cyrus McCormick

Answer 5

He invented the mechanical reaper, a machine that allowed farmers harvest their crops faster

Question 6

Who is Robert Bakewell

Answer 6

He came up with the idea of selective breeding. Only strong animals were allowed to breed to improve the quality of the livestock

Question 7

Who is Charles Townshead

Answer 7

He came up with the idea of crop rotation. It helped make better use of the land

Question 8

Explain cottage industry

Answer 8

When products, especially clothing, were made at home in small amounts. Most goods were made like this before th Industrial revolution

Question 9

Explain fallow

Answer 9

When a field is left empty so it can regain it’s strength

Question 10

What the 1st result of the agricultural revolution

Answer 10

Developments like enclosure, new machinery, selective breeding and crop rotation

Question 11

The 2nd result of the industrial revolution

Answer 11

Cheap food led to a population explosion

Question 12

The 3rd result of the agricultural revolution

Answer 12

Growth in population meant there were not enough jobs in rural areas.
New machines meant fewer people were needed to work the land so people to ed to towns in search of work and towns grew to cities

Question 13

4th result of agricultural revolution

Answer 13

The migration from rural to urban areas meant a lot of people were available to work in the factories of the Industrial revolution

Question 14

Write one major improvement in the agricultural revolution associated with one of the following during the Agricultural Revolution
Jethro Tull
Charles Townshed
Robert Bakewell

Answer 14

Robert Bakewell devoleped selective breeding.

Question 15

Give one reason the Industrial R evolution started in Britain

Answer 15

Due to developments in agricultural there was a population explosion in Britain. This meant there was a large workforce available to work the machinery in the factories

Question 16

Explain one way enclosure improved agriculture

Answer 16

Cattle couldn’t move freely into other fields so they didn’t spread disease or destroy crops. Good farmers could practice new ways to improve quantity and quality oftheir crops and animals

Question 17

Who invented the seed drill

Answer 17

Jethro Thull….

Seeds were sown deeper in the soil so birds couldn’t eat them so there was a larger crop…led to increased food supply

Question 18

Who invented the mechanical reaper

Answer 18

Cyrus McCormick
Made it easier to harvest the crop
This led to increased food supply

Question 19

Why was Was Viscount Charles Townsheds nickname

Answer 19

Turnip Townshed

Question 20

Why was Viscount Charles Townshed called Turnip Townshed

Answer 20

Instead of leaving one field fallow he planted turnip and clover in it and this increased the fertility of the soil. He also rotated the crops between wheat, barley and turnip and clover.
Led to increase in food produced.
This was called the four field system