UNIT 5: Chapter Twelve - 5.4, Pgs. 293-295

Question 1

Second Agricultural Revolution

Answer 1

Used the advances of the Industrial Revolution to increase food supplies and support population growth.

Question 2

Enclosure Movement

Answer 2

A series of laws enacted by the British government that enabled landowners to purchase and enclose land for their own use.

Question 3

2nd Revolution Advances

Answer 3

Iron/Steel Plow, Mechanized Seed Drilling, McCormick Reaper/Harvester, Grain Elevator, Barbed Wire, Mixed Nitrogen and Nitric Acid Fertilizer.

Question 4

Crop Rotation

Answer 4

The technique of planting different crops in a specific sequence on the same plot of land in order to restore nutrients back into the soil.

Question 5

Irrigation

Answer 5

The process of applying controlled amounts of water to crops using canals, pipes, sprinkler systems, or other human-made devices, rather than relying on just rainfall.

Question 6

2nd Revolution impact on demographics

Answer 6

Decrease in farm owners. An even greater drop-off in the need for agricultural laborers. More people living in urban areas than in rural areas for the first time.