Was Agriculture Necessary For The Industrial Revolution

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I believe the Revolution in agriculture was necessary to the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution is a time period in the 1700s where the output of machine-made goods began in England. Most of England's landscape in the 1700s was covered by small farms. These small farms were woven by hand, which is a lot of work. Wealthy landowners however, bought most of the land and enclosed it with fences or hedges, letting them cultivate larger fields called enclosures. These enclosures helped in two ways. It let the landowners experiment with new agricultural methods and it forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or move away to big cities. But, because of all the work it was to wove the textiles in a farm, a man named Jethro Tull saw

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