agriculture revolution

Question 1

plight of the farmers

Answer 1

they were struggling to keep themselves alive. sometimes there are bad crops and they have to live off dung, bark, rats etc

Question 2

open field system

Answer 2

farmers shared land openly. this helped produce more. land was divided into three parts so there could be 2/3 crops.

Question 3

new science

Answer 3

science found crops that could use all the land because they were good for the soil. peas, beans, turnips, and potatoes. this revolutionized farming.

Question 4

resistance and enclosed farms

Answer 4

people are resistant to new ideas so some people were resistant to the new science. some people that weren’t resistant pulled away from the open field system and planted the new crops.

Question 5

English success

Answer 5

England embraces the new science because the English government forced people to farm by the new science through enclosure acts. forcing people to start their own crops and stopping the open field system.

Question 6

Jethro tull

Answer 6

came up with a product called seed drill. It did the exact number of seeds and depth needed to plant and grow

Question 7

Robert Bakewell

Answer 7

significant animal breeding. being selective with animal breeding produced more meat

Question 8

the problem with the enclosure act

Answer 8

people with small land couldn’t compete with people that had more land

Question 9

population growth

Answer 9

prior to the 1700’s the population stayed stagnant. There was a boom in the 1700’s because the plague went down, new science brought in more food. food had higher calorie content (potatoes) there was an understanding of a need for quarantine. fewer wars, better roads, draining of swamps, and small pock inoculation.

Question 10

the problem

Answer 10

number of people looking for non agriculture work grew. because they couldn’t compete with other farmer so bigger cities were more famished.

Question 11

cottage industry

Answer 11

making products in their cottages. a putting out system. manufacturer buys product and puts it in peoples home so they make the product. sheep from farm 1 spin into thread- farm 2 into cloth - farm 3 into clothes- clothes sold in town.

Question 12

good and bad of cottage industry

Answer 12

good- manufacture was getting good product to sell and farmers were getting work. bad- wages drop because of competition. prices go down, profits go down, manufacturer pays farmer less. product quality goes down. There is a desire to regulate workers and a need for new markets. American colonies in the 1700’s become more important to European countries.

Question 13

Atlantic Economy and colonial wars

Answer 13

solving problems by having colonies. relieves overcrowding, creates larger markets. (england, france, spain, and the netherlands.) colonies become more important to create power in the western world.

Question 14

mercantilism

Answer 14

the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.

Question 15

related to the colonies

Answer 15

no competition, produce raw materials only, market for goods, englands navigation acts placed by cromwell in 1600s mandates shipping to or from english colonies have to go through port of london 1st.

Question 16

atlantic slave trade

Answer 16

british won complete control. taking slaves to the new world. triangular- goods go to africa to purchase slaves to be taken to the new world. britian became a dominating superpower.

Question 17

british wars

Answer 17

European wars in the colonies. France encouraged the native americans to attack british colonies- giving them weapons. british defend colonies this takes fighters away from europe. war of spanish succession- british expanded territories they got newfoundland, gibraltar, and Nova Scotia- expanding their colonial empire.

Question 18

7 yrs war

Answer 18

1st 3 yrs france was winning. william pitt became prime minister. he piled all resources into this war. they defeated the french. france had to give england all of canada and spain all of louisianna.

Question 19

british success

Answer 19

intense nationalism, more willing to make sacrifices because of the constitutional monarchy. larger colonial population, immigrants went to british colonies because of religious freedom. enclosure acts, producing more raw material and buying more goods gives english more wealth. they have the best navy

Question 20

Conclusion

Answer 20

in the 1700s agriculture revolution and cottage industries created problems. they made the american colonies all the more important. no one took better advantage of their colonies than the british so by 1775 the british had a thriving economy and was becoming europes superpower