HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Progress was also made in crop rotation and land use, soil health. development of new crop varieties and animal framing.
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A great many rural workers and families were forced to migrate to the cities to become industrial laborers
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Large enterprises began to concentrate in rapidly growing industrial cities
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Huge increased in production led to a need for better transportation system
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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 of them moved to the cities in search of work in the emerging factories of the Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The technological explosion that was the Industrial Revolution led to a momentous increase in the process of urbanization. Larger populations in small areas meant that the new factories could draw on a big pool of workers and that the larger labour force could be ever more specialized.
Detailed explanation-3: -As a result of the four-crop rotation system, British farmers could be more productive. The turnips replenished the soil with needed nutrients, provided another crop for farmers to eat and sell, and gave their livestock something to live on during the winter. The end result was more food and livestock.
Detailed explanation-4: -This increase in the food supply contributed to the rapid growth of population in England and Wales, from 5.5 million in 1700 to over 9 million by 1801, and domestic production gave way to food imports in the 19th century as population more than tripled to over 32 million.