Explain the factors that led to a rise in urbanization during the last half of the 19th century?

Answer 1

The industrial revolution created a large need for workers. Innovations in the textile industry for example created high demand for workers to operate the machinery. Francis Lowell came up with the idea of offering a comely environment to attract females. Jumping at the opportunity to earn some pocket money and delighted at the benefits of the Lowell system--three meals, free lodging--women came in droves.

Also, preceding the IR was a agricultural revolution. This saw innovations in new farming techniques and machinery. The mechanical seed drill shortened the time needed to sow seeds. Moreover, farmers previously implemented a three field system in which one field would grow nothing, waste of land. "Turnip" Townsend came up with the idea of using turnips to replenish the soil, rather than have it lie fallow. Those turnips could be sold, or fed to your livestock allowing them to survive winter better, farmers would previously kill livestock because they didn't have enough animal food. This led to greater meat production. Another movement within the Agicultural Revolution was the enclosure movement. Rich, private landowners enclosure public pasture from public use. That little girl that used to take the sheep out to graze now had no where to graze the sheep. As a result of new farming methods, farming technology, and enclosure, many were out of a job. This surplus of unemployed soon found out about the demand for workers in factories and as a result, many previous farmers went to he city to work.

Answer 2

The major factors that led to a rise in urbanization during the last half of the 19th century included industrialization, which created more job opportunities in cities; rural-to-urban migration as people moved from rural areas to cities in search of employment; and improvements in transportation, such as railway systems, that made it easier for people to move to and within cities for work.