WORLD HISTORY

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

PRE INDUSTRIAL EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What led to an increase in population in Great Britain and forced many farmers to move to cities
A
Increased agricultural yields
B
National movements
C
Colonial expansion
D
Formation of a limited government
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -With the changes that came with the Industrial revolution, people began leaving their farms and working in the cities. The new technologies forced people into the factories and a capitalistic sense of living began.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The 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, although domestic production gave way increasingly to food imports in the 19th century as population more than tripled to over 32 million.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Agricultural Revolution was the unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain due to increases in labor and land productivity between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries.

Detailed explanation-5: -As these early farmers became better at cultivating food, they may have produced surplus seeds and crops that required storage. This would have both spurred population growth because of more consistent food availability and required a more settled way of life with the need to store seeds and tend crops.

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