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Enclosure acts (sep 14, 1795 – jun 1, 1801)

Description:

laws enacted in eighteenth-century Britain that allowed large landowners to enclose the old open fields, thereby combining many small holdings into larger units and forcing many small farmers to become tenant farmers or wage laborers on the large estates.

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Date:

sep 14, 1795
jun 1, 1801
~ 5 years and 8 months