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Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions

1. What was the term used to describe the manufacturing system prior to the Industrial Revolution?
The cottage system
2. Which county took the lead in the Agricultural Revolution?
France
3. What was the major factor in preventing industrialization in Russia?
Their very cold winters
4. Which of the following was the least important factor in helping Britain take
the lead in the Industrial Revolution?
Had a republic
5. How would one best describe the role of the British government at the start
of the Industrial Revolution?
6. How did the industrial development change urban life?
It made people move into urbanized areas which were cities
7. What was the term that was given to the 1840s that reflected the lifestyle
of the vast majority of people?
Urban poor
8. Which of the following is the correct path of industrial development?
Small then grew larger
9. Which of the following was not part of the Agricultural Revolution?
Factories
10. What was the enclosure movement?
When farmers fenced off their land so animals couldn’t graze on their land
11. In Britain who suffered the most as a consequence of the enclosure
movement?
The peasants
12. What happened to agriculture in Russia after the Agricultural Revolution
swept through Europe?
It became more productive
13. What did the Dutch do to improve their agricultural production?
They used crop rotation
14. What happened to the population of most European nations during the
nineteenth century?
It grew bigger
15. What happened to life expectancy during the nineteenth century?
People lived until the about the age of 61
16. Which of the following was not an epidemic still ravaging Europe in the
nineteenth century?
The Black Death
17. Who wrote Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)?
Tomas Malthus
18. What was the thesis of the Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)?
Growing population makes wages lower!
19. Which country witnessed the... [continues]

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