Increase in poverty - reasons why

• Reasons to why Poverty increased

  A) Cloth Wool Trade Collapse

  B) Wars

  C) A rise in population

  D) Bad harvest

  E) Changes in farming

  F) Inflation

  
• Enclosing their fields and keeping sheep instead of growing crops

  Led to high unemployment
• More people


  Led to more demand for goods, and so prices rose
• Reasons for the decline of the cloth trade

  • Decline in demand
  • Woollen cloth was England’s main export
• Reasons for taxes being increased

  • Wars
  • Bad harvests
• Bad harvests

  Led to taxes being increased
• Changes in farming

  Many landlords decided to enclose their fields and keep sheep instead of growing crops
• Decline in demand

  Led to unemployment
• Wars

  Led to taxes being increased to compensate for the price of waging war
• More people

  Led to enclosing their fields and keeping sheep instead of growing crops
• Bad harvests

  Led to even higher demand and more rising prices
• The population rose by a million during the Elizabethan period
• More people

  Led to prices rising and wages falling as there were more people around to do the work
• Enclosing their fields and keeping sheep instead of growing crops

  Led to high unemployment
• Reasons for the decline of the cloth trade

  • Decline in demand
  • Woollen cloth was England’s main export
• More people


  Led to more demand for goods, and so prices rose
• Reasons for taxes being increased

  • Wars
  • Bad harvests
• Bad harvests

  Led to taxes being increased
• Changes in farming

  Many landlords decided to enclose their fields and keep sheep instead of growing crops