Discuss why the British Parliament passed the Enclosure Acts.

The British Parliament passed the Enclosure Acts because of the following reasons.

A. The Enclosure Movement progressed slowly till the middle of the eighteenth century. The early enclosures were usually created by individual landlords.

B. They were not supported by the slate or the Church.

C. It was after the mid-eighteenth century that the Enclosure Movement swept through the countryside, changing the English landscape forever. Within the next hundreds years, 6 million acres of land was enclosed.

D. The British Parliament no longer distanced itself from this progress and passed 4,000 Acts legalising these enclosures.