Question

Which of the following roles did greet Britain’s colonies play in causing the Industrial revolution?

Answer 1

The correct answer is they provided British factories with raw materials

Explanation:  One of the immediate consequences of the bourgeois revolution in England was faster economic growth. Although there were still some vestiges of feudalism in the country, there were ample prospects for full capitalist development, and a period of enormous industrial expansion followed. Wool and cotton manufactures, coal mining and iron smelting were developing rapidly.

Industrial expansion, particularly the wool industry, was accompanied by a mass expropriation of peasant land. The growing need for wool led the peasant owners to drive the peasants from the land they and their ancestors had cultivated for centuries, and to graze the arable land. The peasants were thus deprived of everything they owned and forced to become Wage Workers with nothing to sell but the work of their hands.