INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
PRE INDUSTRIAL EUROPE
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It fenced off land to divide among small farmers.
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It forced people to move into urban areas.
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It led to the development of factories in rural areas.
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It improved cottage industries.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The primary reason for enclosure was to improve the efficiency of agriculture. However, there were other motives too, one example being that the value of the land enclosed would be substantially increased. There were social consequences to the policy, with many protests at the removal of rights from the common people.
Detailed explanation-3: -Farmers lost their farms of jobs and migrated to cities to find work. Enclosures caused poverty, homelessness, and rural depopulation, and resulted in revolts in 1549 and 1607.
Detailed explanation-4: -The enclosure movement had two important results. First, landowners experimented with new agricul-tural methods. Second, large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or to give up farming and move to the cities.