Question 1
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What percentage of the British workforce in 1750 worked in agriculture and what did this drop by 1850?
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1750: 100% 1850:50%
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1750: 75% 1850:25%
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1750: 50% 1850:25%
Question 2
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In 1840, agriculture was still the largest sector on the economy, true or false?
Question 3
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Britain was producing 10 acres per bushel in medieval times, what had the grown to by c.1800?
Question 4
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In 1750, Britain net export was food, by 1850 her net import was food, what percentage of food was imported?
Question 5
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Who states that by 1600, 50% of farmland was already enclosed?
Question 6
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Between what years did food prices soar as agriculture could not keep up?
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1730-1800
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1750-1815
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1760-1815
Question 7
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What year was parliamentary enclosure introduced?
Question 8
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Which historian claims that due to agricultures ability to cater to a grower population allows it can be called a 'revolution'?
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Brenner
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Overton
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E. L. Jones
Question 9
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What did Crafts claim?
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Agriculture adequately supplied the country's wants until the mid 18th C.
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Agriculture grew faster than most industries and released labour into industry
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As a capitalist state emerged there was a decline in the peasantry
Question 10
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Which two sets of historians claim agriculture had a damaging effect on industry?
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O'Brien and Allen
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Kerridge
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Allen
Question 11
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E. L. Jones claims that new techniques introduced into agriculture between 1600-1750, alternative meant what?
Question 12
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E. L. Jones claims that new techniques introduced into agriculture between 1600-1750, convertible meant what?
Question 13
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Who claimed there was two revolutions ins farming, the 'yeoman's revolution' and the 'landlords'?
Question 14
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Which three historians state that AR ran alongside the IR and success was due to modernising Landlords (Jethro Tull and Turnip Townsend) and parliamentary enclosure?
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E. L. Thompson
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Toynbee
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Overton
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Mantoux
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Lord Ernle
Question 15
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Which two historians downplay innovation and claim in came later?
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Jones and Wordie
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Allen and Kerridge
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Overton and Thompson