HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Farms became less productive.
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Farmers learned to use steam power to harvest crops.
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The number of farmers shot up from 5 million to about 9 million.
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Many farmers lost farms and moved to cities.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The more productive enclosed farms meant that fewer farmers were needed to work the same land, leaving many villagers without land and grazing rights. Many moved to the cities in search of work in the emerging factories of the Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -143) Give one way in which enclosures affected the poor farmers. Answer:With ‘enclosures’ the poor farmers lost their customary rights to graze their cattle.
Detailed explanation-3: -Enclosure often meant that smaller tenant farmers were forced off the land when the open fields were enclosed into smaller pieces of land. Whilst, the owners of the land benefited from the increased profits as a result of enclosure, farm workers suffered as they could no longer afford the higher rents.
Detailed explanation-4: -On the one hand, enclosure deprived many peasants of their sole means of subsistence and forced them to seek work in the towns and cities. On the other hand, the enclosure of common land resulted in the productivity gains that many historians believe were a prerequisite for the industrial revolution.
Detailed explanation-5: -The enclosure movement was a period of time in which land ownership became more consolidated and enclosure fences were erected to delineate property. This change had a profound impact on agriculture, as it led to the displacement of many small farmers who could no longer access common grazing land.