The effects of the enclosures on the poor were as given below: (i) The poor could no longer collect their firewood from the forests or graze the cattle on the commons. (ii) The could no longer collect apples and berries or hunt small animals for meat. (iii) They could not gather the stalks that layRead more
The effects of the enclosures on the poor were as given below:
(i) The poor could no longer collect their firewood from the forests or graze the cattle on the commons.
(ii) The could no longer collect apples and berries or hunt small animals for meat.
(iii) They could not gather the stalks that lay on the fields after the crops were cut. Everything belonged to the landlords. Everything had a price which the poor could not afford to pay.
(iv) In Midlands and counties around it, enclosures came into existence on an extensive scale. The poor were displaced from the land. Deprived of their right and driven off the land, they tramped in search of work. From the Midlands. they moved to the Southern counties of England but nowhere could the poor find secure jobs.
(v) Wages of the labourers were reduced. They were employed only during harvest time. Work became insecure, employment uncertain and income unstable. For a very large part of the year, the poor had no work.
(a) The factors for the introduction of threshing machines were as given below: (i) Expansion of production by the farmers due to high prices of foodgrains. (ii) Fear of shortage of labour. (ii) Complaints of insolence of labourers, their drinking habits, and the difficulty of making them work (v) TRead more
(a) The factors for the introduction of threshing machines were as given below:
(i) Expansion of production by the farmers due to high prices of foodgrains.
(ii) Fear of shortage of labour.
(ii) Complaints of insolence of labourers, their drinking habits, and the difficulty of making them work
(v) To reduce their dependence on labourers.
(b) After the Napoleonic wars, thousands of soldiers returned to their homes. They
needed jobs but there was no work due to reduction in the cultivation area and use of threshing machines. This led to riots.
Modern Agriculture had affected the following changes in England: (i) The open fields disappeared. (ii) The customary rights of peasants were undermined. (iii) The richer farmers expanded grain production sold this grain in the world market, made profits, and became powerful. (iv) The poor were affeRead more
Modern Agriculture had affected the following changes in England:
(i) The open fields disappeared.
(ii) The customary rights of peasants were undermined.
(iii) The richer farmers expanded grain production sold this grain in the world market, made profits, and became powerful.
(iv) The poor were affected badly. They were forced to leave their villages in large numbers.
(v) Some went to the Southern counties for sale and others to the cities
(vi) The wages of the labourers were reduced that led to instability in their income. Their jobs became insecure and their livelihood precarious. The law gave them no redress.
The main features of the condition of landscape of the USA at the end of the eighteenth century were as given below: (i) Forests covered over 800 million acres and grasslands 600 million acres (ii) Till 1980s, white American settlements were confined to a small narrow strip of coastal land in the eaRead more
The main features of the condition of landscape of the USA at the end of the
eighteenth century were as given below:
(i) Forests covered over 800 million acres and grasslands 600 million acres
(ii) Till 1980s, white American settlements were confined to a small narrow strip of coastal land in the east. Out of the group of Native Americans, several of them nomadic, some got settled. Many of them lived only by hunting, gathering and fishing others cultivated corn, beans, tabacco and pumpkin. Some were expert trappers.
(iii) America seemed to be a land of promise. Its wilderness could be turned into cultivated fields. Forest Limber could be cut for export animal hunted for skin, mountains mined for gold and minerals.
The reason for recurrent dust storms in the great plains of America were as mentioned blew: (i) The early 1930s were years of persistent drought. (ii) The rains failed year after year, and temperatures soared. The wind blew with ferocious speed. (iii) Ordinary dust storms became black blizzards onlyRead more
The reason for recurrent dust storms in the great plains of America were as mentioned blew:
(i) The early 1930s were years of persistent drought.
(ii) The rains failed year after year, and temperatures soared. The wind blew with
ferocious speed.
(iii) Ordinary dust storms became black blizzards only because the entire landscape has been ploughed over, stripped of all grass that held it together.
(iv) Zealous farmers had recklessly uprooted all vegetation, and tractors had turned the soil over, and broken the sod into dust. The whole region had become a dust bowl.
What were the effects of the enclosures on the poor in England?
The effects of the enclosures on the poor were as given below: (i) The poor could no longer collect their firewood from the forests or graze the cattle on the commons. (ii) The could no longer collect apples and berries or hunt small animals for meat. (iii) They could not gather the stalks that layRead more
The effects of the enclosures on the poor were as given below:
See less(i) The poor could no longer collect their firewood from the forests or graze the cattle on the commons.
(ii) The could no longer collect apples and berries or hunt small animals for meat.
(iii) They could not gather the stalks that lay on the fields after the crops were cut. Everything belonged to the landlords. Everything had a price which the poor could not afford to pay.
(iv) In Midlands and counties around it, enclosures came into existence on an extensive scale. The poor were displaced from the land. Deprived of their right and driven off the land, they tramped in search of work. From the Midlands. they moved to the Southern counties of England but nowhere could the poor find secure jobs.
(v) Wages of the labourers were reduced. They were employed only during harvest time. Work became insecure, employment uncertain and income unstable. For a very large part of the year, the poor had no work.
What were the factors for the introduction of threshing machines during the Napoleonic Wars? What were its effect after the Napoleonic wars in England?
(a) The factors for the introduction of threshing machines were as given below: (i) Expansion of production by the farmers due to high prices of foodgrains. (ii) Fear of shortage of labour. (ii) Complaints of insolence of labourers, their drinking habits, and the difficulty of making them work (v) TRead more
(a) The factors for the introduction of threshing machines were as given below:
See less(i) Expansion of production by the farmers due to high prices of foodgrains.
(ii) Fear of shortage of labour.
(ii) Complaints of insolence of labourers, their drinking habits, and the difficulty of making them work
(v) To reduce their dependence on labourers.
(b) After the Napoleonic wars, thousands of soldiers returned to their homes. They
needed jobs but there was no work due to reduction in the cultivation area and use of threshing machines. This led to riots.
Describe in brief the changes that occurred with the coming of modern agriculture in England.
Modern Agriculture had affected the following changes in England: (i) The open fields disappeared. (ii) The customary rights of peasants were undermined. (iii) The richer farmers expanded grain production sold this grain in the world market, made profits, and became powerful. (iv) The poor were affeRead more
Modern Agriculture had affected the following changes in England:
See less(i) The open fields disappeared.
(ii) The customary rights of peasants were undermined.
(iii) The richer farmers expanded grain production sold this grain in the world market, made profits, and became powerful.
(iv) The poor were affected badly. They were forced to leave their villages in large numbers.
(v) Some went to the Southern counties for sale and others to the cities
(vi) The wages of the labourers were reduced that led to instability in their income. Their jobs became insecure and their livelihood precarious. The law gave them no redress.
Describe the main features of condition of landscape of the USA at the end of the eighteenth century.
The main features of the condition of landscape of the USA at the end of the eighteenth century were as given below: (i) Forests covered over 800 million acres and grasslands 600 million acres (ii) Till 1980s, white American settlements were confined to a small narrow strip of coastal land in the eaRead more
The main features of the condition of landscape of the USA at the end of the
See lesseighteenth century were as given below:
(i) Forests covered over 800 million acres and grasslands 600 million acres
(ii) Till 1980s, white American settlements were confined to a small narrow strip of coastal land in the east. Out of the group of Native Americans, several of them nomadic, some got settled. Many of them lived only by hunting, gathering and fishing others cultivated corn, beans, tabacco and pumpkin. Some were expert trappers.
(iii) America seemed to be a land of promise. Its wilderness could be turned into cultivated fields. Forest Limber could be cut for export animal hunted for skin, mountains mined for gold and minerals.
Analyses the reason for recurrent dust storms in the great plains of America.
The reason for recurrent dust storms in the great plains of America were as mentioned blew: (i) The early 1930s were years of persistent drought. (ii) The rains failed year after year, and temperatures soared. The wind blew with ferocious speed. (iii) Ordinary dust storms became black blizzards onlyRead more
The reason for recurrent dust storms in the great plains of America were as mentioned blew:
See less(i) The early 1930s were years of persistent drought.
(ii) The rains failed year after year, and temperatures soared. The wind blew with
ferocious speed.
(iii) Ordinary dust storms became black blizzards only because the entire landscape has been ploughed over, stripped of all grass that held it together.
(iv) Zealous farmers had recklessly uprooted all vegetation, and tractors had turned the soil over, and broken the sod into dust. The whole region had become a dust bowl.