Question

Why did Britain make it illegal for factory workers to leave the country?

Answer 1

D) They did not want these workers to give other countries information about the inventions in British factories.

Step-by-step explanation:

Great Britain had an industrial revolution before United States did. So, this policy was to prevent the emigration of ideas and inventions that they surely had, the ideas that allowed them become an industrial society. For example, American textile companies offered rewards to those people who gave them information about textile knowledges.

Answer 2

English factory workers were not allowed to leave the country because factory owners feared that they would tell other entrepreneurs in America how their machines were set up and would copy them.