HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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They were used to pen animals for domestication.
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They enabled farmers to rotate crops.
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They consolidated fields to gain larger pastures.
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They helped reclaim land from the sea.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It forced the poor people to migrate to centralized locations such as industrial cities and towns and to seek work in factories and mines. Therefore, historians often view it as one of the main causes of the Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The enclosure movement led to the development of improved technology in agriculture because farmers no longer had to get permission from other villagers to try new farming methods.
Detailed explanation-3: -The “enclosure movement” in the 19th century encouraged a large demographic migration of people from the English countryside to city centers, speeding up urbanization. Enclosure is the process of converting land from public ownership to private ownership through capital acquisition.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Enclosure” refers to the consolidation of land, usually for the stated purpose of making it more productive. The British Enclosure Acts removed the prior rights of local people to rural land they had often used for generations.
Detailed explanation-5: -Enclosure movement brought more land under cultivation; facilitated modern method of farming; unleashed large human capital from agricultural labour thus provided for workforce in industries. This workforce was ready to move where jobs were available and wages attractive. This helped the Industrial revolution.