Question

How did the Enclosure Acts encourage the industrial Revolution

A.) it increased private land ownership which put smaller farmers out of business
B.) Many farmers moved to the city to find new work
C.) the movement of workers provided the workforce needed for the factories that came out of the Industrial Revolution
D.) All the Above

Answer 1

All of the above. The enclosure acts were a movement by the British government that closed off the commons (communal farming area for a whole village) so that only people who could afford to buy the land could use it. Many farmers at the time relied on the commons as their primary source of food and income and were forced to move to cities like Manchester or London to find work (usually with poor wages inside factories)