Social Tension And Regional Division - Aka Farming Flashcards
What was enclosure
Putting a fence around a field so that either one crop could be produced on a lager scale or the field could be used for livestock
Why was enclosure popular ?
Pastoral farming was more profitable than arable farming . Cloth trade one of the most lucrative and popular trade
Why was enclosure unpopular?
Deprived villagers of land for their animals, especially if they didn’t rent the land themselves
Dissatisfaction from tenant farmers and villagers.
Why was enclosures not that sig?
Only 3 percent of land was enclosed
What was engrossing?
Joining together of several farms to make one unit, usually the process of one farmer buying up the land of the others.
Why was engrossing unpopular?
Led to families being evicted
Ocasional vagabondage[people without employment]
Why were their regional differences in agriculture?
Londoners tend to look down upon northerners for their perceived savagery,while northerners were envious of southern riches.
South and east=roughly 3/4 of the population lived there. Mixed farming was used in densely populated areas of the south east.
North and west= sparsely populated areas, pastoral farming was most common
What percentage of people worked in agriculture?
90 percent of farmers
Who were yeomen ?
Owned and work on their own lands
What is subsistence farming?
Grow crops and raise livestock to feed themselves, no surplus to sell for profit
