Answer:
the Enclosure Acts.
Step-by-step explanation:
Goldsmith wrote The Deserted Village specifically to describe the results of:
The Enclosure Acts passed somewhere between 1750 and 1860. They were meant to take away the rights that the peasant's had to use the swaps and other areas. The peasants received, as an offer, other smaller and less productive lands that were infertile while the waste lands would be used to make the rich people richer.