Elizabeth 4 - causes of poverty Flashcards
1
Q
How much of the population lived in poverty by 1580s.
A
30%
2
Q
What were vagrants and vagabonds?
A
Unemployed people who roamed from town to town looking for work
3
Q
Why were the middling sort and gentry worried about vagrancy?
A
Worried vagrants would commit crimes
Worried vagrants would spread the plague
4
Q
What are the reasons we now know we’re the cause of poverty?
A
Population increase 2.4 mil - 4.1 mil
Inflation - increased demand led to increase of prices wheat increased 250%
Failed harvests - even less wheat
Sheep farming- cloth was fashionable so sheep farming became very profitable
