USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Enclosure movement has been seen by some as causing the destruction of the traditional peasant way of life, however miserable. Landless peasants could no longer maintain an economic independence so had to become labourers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it.

Detailed explanation-3: -In England the movement for enclosure began in the 12th century and proceeded rapidly in the period 1450–1640, when the purpose was mainly to increase the amount of full-time pasturage available to manorial lords.

Detailed explanation-4: -Effects of Enclosures (cont.) Farmers lost their farms of jobs and migrated to cities to find work. Enclosures caused poverty, homelessness, and rural depopulation, and resulted in revolts in 1549 and 1607.