WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Inclosure Act 1773 created a law that enabled “enclosure” of land, at the same time removing the right of commoners’ access. Although there was usually compensation, it was often in the form of a smaller and poorer quality plot of land.

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: -Following enclosure, crop yields and livestock output increased while at the same time productivity increased enough to create a surplus of labor. The increased labor supply is considered one of the factors facilitating the Industrial Revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -“The political dominance of large landowners determined the course of enclosure…. [I]t was their power in Parliament and as local Justices of the Peace that enabled them to redistribute the land in their own favor.

Detailed explanation-5: -The enclosure movement started in England in the 16th century. It gained pace in the 18th century before really accelerating as a result of the General Enclosure Act of 1801.