HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Farms became larger
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Farming became more productive and efficient
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Peasants were forced off the land and moved to cities
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All of the Above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The primary reason for enclosure was to improve the efficiency of agriculture. However, there were other motives too, one example being that the value of the land enclosed would be substantially increased. There were social consequences to the policy, with many protests at the removal of rights from the common people.
Detailed explanation-2: -(i) Enclosure movement helped in bringing long-term investments on land in Britain. (ii) It led to the development of plan crop rotations to improve the fertility of the soil. (iii) Enclosures allowed the richer landowners to expand the land under their control.
Detailed explanation-3: -The enclosure movement had two important results. First, landowners experimented with new agricul-tural methods. Second, large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or to give up farming and move to the cities.
Detailed explanation-4: -To enclose land was to put support or fence around a part of this open land and consequently forestall the activity of regular touching and different rights over it.