Enclosures pushed peasants out of the countryside and for those who stayed ..poverty..Many remained as tenant farmers,small landowners or wage earners. Fifty percent of England’s farmland was already enclosed by 1750.
A poll tax was imposed on voters. I have found the poll tax receipt my mother paid back in the 1960s. Poor people could not afford to pay a tax to vote, because their income was so low.
The answer is gunpowder and square sails
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