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This essay will discuss whether the good effects of enclosure outweighed the bad effects.
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HISTORY ESSAY By Alex Nathan March 2001 "THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF ENCLOSURE OUTWEIGHED THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS" This essay will discuss whether the good effects of enclosure outweighed the bad effects. In Britain in 1750, the farming system was changed from the open field system to the enclosure system by the government because there was not enough food being grown in the open field system. The open field system consisted of every farmer having his own strips of land, scattered about a few different fields. The number of strips the farmer had depended on how rich he was, so the poor peasants would have no more than four strips. The name open field system comes from the fact that there were no fences between the strips, just mounds of soil (which could have been used for growing crops). The peasants had just enough land to survive, and everyone (rich or poor) kept their...
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