After buying up the land of village farmers, wealthy landowners enclosed their land with fences or hedges. The increase in their landholdings enabled them to cultivate larger fields.
Large landowners closed off the land in England and small farmers lost their jobs.
it destroyed the village and the lifestyle of common areas across much of England's countryside.
A lot of peasants lost their land and went to work in the cities.
It gave landowners new agricultural methods and Large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or give up farming and move to the cities.
There was a surplus of food, and farmers moved to the city.
The enclosure movement had diverse effects on farmers. The rural proletarians were kicked out the rural lands which resulted to few farmers owning large lands and this result to poverty and homelessness.
It gave farmers more to tools to have. Like they had more goods, so they had more demand, so they were getting more money.The enclosure movement affected farmers through loss of farms and livelihood forcing them to migrate to cities.
In the enclosure movement GB landowners closed off public lands to better organize and keep track of land and animals.
Enclosure movement
The Enclosure movement, with it's roots in the Tudor era. It was the beginning of the shift from feudalism to socialistic agriculture.
The enclosure movement taught farmers to fence land earmarked for grazing and cultivation.
The enclosure movement taught farmers to fence land earmarked for grazing and cultivation.
Enclosure
Rich landowners that could afford the land benefitted the most from England's enclosure farming.
The British Enclosure Movement
The enclosure movement created thousands of poor, unemployed beggars who wandered to different towns looking for work. These people believed leaving England for a chance at a better life in America was appealing.
There was a surplus of food, and farmers moved to the city.
The Enclosure Movement
The enclosure movement had diverse effects on farmers. The rural proletarians were kicked out the rural lands which resulted to few farmers owning large lands and this result to poverty and homelessness.