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What effect did the enclosure acts have on people's working lives?

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Many enclosure acts were passed from about 1600 to 1900, thereby shutting off peasants from common lands on which they could formerly graze their sheep and raise crops. The Enclosure Acts were passed so that landowners could make higher profits from their land and increase agricultural productivity.

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