AP EURO Chapter 17 Part 1 Quiz Answers

What was Jethro Tull's contribution to English agriculture in the eighteenth century?

He critiqued accepted farming methods and developed better methods through empirical research.

How did the problem of food shortages change in the eighteenth century?

Increased road and canal building permitted food to be more easily transported to regions with local crop failure and famine.

Which of the following correctly characterizes the transformation of the English and Scottish countryside in the enclosure era?

The elimination of common rights and access to land turned small peasant farmers into landless wage earners.

Which of the following characterizes the condition of peasants in Western Europe in the eighteenth century?

They were generally free from serfdom and owned land that they could pass on to their children.

Between 1700 and 1835, Europe's population

doubled.

In Primary Source 17.1, Arthur Young, writing at the end of the eighteenth century on the benefits of enclosure, believes that

enclosures will increase the amount of employment compared with open fields.

In the eighteenth century, European public health measures

improved water supply and sewage systems.

Population growth in Europe in the eighteenth century occurred

in all regions.

In the eighteenth century, advocates for agricultural innovation argued that

landholdings and common lands needed to be consolidated and enclosed in order to farm more efficiently.

Holland's leadership in farming methodology can be attributed to

the necessity to provide for a densely populated country.