Agricultural Revolution

What Agricultural Innovation does this picture illustrate?

• Enclosure Movement

• Common Land

• Environmental protection

• Sustenance Farming

Check the following effects of the Enclosure Movement. (more than one answer)

• private farmers were more likely to try new farming methods

• many peasants moved to cities to look for work

• "Common land" was still used by peasants to farm and hunt on

• larger farms were privately owned

Check all statements that are true about this invention.

• It is a seed drill invented by Jethro Tull.

• It planted 3 rows of seed and covered them with dirt.

• It decreased crop yields.

• It required fewer field hands (workers)

• Four crop rotation replenished nutrients in the soil by planting turnips.

• Four crop rotation was introduced by South American farmers

• Potatoes and tomatoes were new crops planted in the fourth field

• Turnips were fed to livestock through out the winter.

"the transformation of agriculture from traditional medieval farming to more productive, efficient, and mechanical methods of farming through scientific innovation and new techniques starting in the mid-1700s" What is this quote describing?

• Agricultural Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• French Revolution

• Scientific Revolution