WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -On the one hand, enclosure deprived many peasants of their sole means of subsistence and forced them to seek work in the towns and cities. On the other hand, the enclosure of common land resulted in the productivity gains that many historians believe were a prerequisite for the industrial revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -The “enclosure movement” in the 19th century encouraged a large demographic migration of people from the English countryside to city centers, speeding up urbanization. Enclosure is the process of converting land from public ownership to private ownership through capital acquisition.

Detailed explanation-5: -The enclosure movement had two important results. First, landowners experimented with new agricul-tural methods. Second, large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or to give up farming and move to the cities.