Poverty in Elizabethan England
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- Created on: 07-05-18 15:50
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- Poverty
- types of poor
- Helpless poor
- unable to work or support themselves
- Deserving Poor
- people who wnat to find work but are unable to
- Undeserving poor
- people who refuse to work
- criminals
- beggars
- migrant workers (vagaonds)
- people who refuse to work
- Helpless poor
- Government
- rich people made donations
- to hopsitals
- monastries
- other organisations
- government feared rebellion from the poor
- Criminal rates and food riots increase along with poverty
- rich people made donations
- Poor Law
- gave helped to the helpless and deserving poor
- 1560s onwards.. growing poverty= new poor laws
- poor rate introduced= tax to raise money for poor
- tax collector official called Overseer of the Poor appointed
- Cause
- population growth
- population growth meant more food required...
- food producation couldn't keep up
- food shortages = food prices rose
- food producation couldn't keep up
- population growth meant more food required...
- Agriculture
- enclosed farms became popular in the 16th century
- fewer labourers needed
- more workers unemplyed and homeless
- landowners stopped growig grain and began sheep farming
- food shhortages
- bad harvest
- fewer labourers needed
- enclosed farms became popular in the 16th century
- population growth
- types of poor
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