Question

Why did Dutch and English landowners force peasants off the land?

(1 point)
Responses

to motivate people to emigrate overseas

to motivate people to emigrate overseas

to use the land in more profitable ways

to use the land in more profitable ways

to build cities on what used to be farmland

to build cities on what used to be farmland

to build up local cottage industries

Answer 1

to use the land in more profitable ways

(They enclosed common fields and evicted peasants to convert land to sheep pasture and other profitable uses such as larger commercial farms.)