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What happened to the poor after the enclosure movement?

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CBSE Session 2022-2023.
Class 9 chapter 6 Peasants and Farmers.
Important Questions of Class 9th NCERT.
NCERT SOCIAL SCIENCE Solutions, History.
CBSE Board state and other board.
NCERT book Extra Questions.

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  1. (i) The poor could no longer collect their firewood from the forests or graze
    their cattle on the commons.
    (ii) They could no longer collect apples and berries or hunt animals for meat.
    (iii) Nor could they gather the stalks that lay on the fields after the crops
    were cut.
    (iv) The poor were displaced from their lands and they found their customary
    rights gradually disappearing.
    (v) Some of them moved to the southern counties of England, where there
    was a great demand for agricultural labourers.
    (vi) For them work became insecure, employment uncertain and income
    unstable.

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