HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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Smaller farmers lost their land and ability to use the common land
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Large Landowners and wealthy benefited the most
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Larger farms were able to produce more food for the growing population
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Smaller farmers expanded and were able to produce more food
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Detailed explanation-1: -(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-2: -The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it.
Detailed explanation-3: -The enclosures were beneficial to the rich peasants in Britain. They were seen as necessary to make long-term investments on land and plan crop rotations to improve the soil. Enclosures also allowed the richer landowners to expand the land under their control and produce more for the market thus earning profits.
Detailed explanation-4: -Wealthy landowners began claiming the rights to common lands. It forced many farmers off of their land as the wealthy farmers gained more plots of land.