What economic transformation in England led to the loss of farmland for families, resulting in a high homeless rate and unemployment?

a. the law of "no work, no food"
b. English royal subsidies
c. the development of farm machinery using steam power
d. the use of land to raise sheep for the woolen industry


ANSWER: d

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