Industrial Revolution

Wealthy landowners enclosed their land and invested heavily in better farming techniques. The government recognized a food shortage was coming and forced more workers to farm.

After buying up the land of village farmers, why did wealthy landowners enclosed their land with fences or hedges? Increase in their landholding, enabled them to cultivate larger fields. Large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or to give up farming and move to the cities.

What are two important results of the enclosure movement in England? -large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or move and work in the city.

Enclosure leads to an increase in poverty. Enclosure often meant that smaller tenant farmers were forced off the land when the open fields were enclosed into smaller pieces of land.

The British Enclosure Acts removed the prior rights of local people to rural land they had often used for generations. As compensation, the displaced people were commonly offered alternative land of smaller scope and inferior quality, sometimes with no access to water or wood.

However, in the 1700s, the British parliament passed legislation, referred to as the Enclosure Acts, which allowed the common areas to become privately owned. This led to wealthy farmers buying up large sections of land in order to create larger and more complex farms.

The Enclosure Act was passed to create more commerce for farmers and use the lands more rationally. The enclosure was good because it increased food production. The Enclosure Act damaged the pheasant population. Before the enclosure of the land, there were strips of land poor farmers would farm.

Five factors that spurred industrial growth in the late 1800’s are Abundant natural resources (coal, iron, oil); Abundant labor supply; Railroads; Labor saving technological advances (new patents) and Pro-Business government policies. Several factors led to the rise of U.S. industrialization in the late 1800’s.

Answers

• Low purchasing power of people due to poverty.
• Government policies/ poor economies which do not offer conducive environment to attract foreign investment.
• Political instability/civil wars/power wrangles among leaders and border disputes have slowed industrialization.