The enclosure movement in England in the 17ᵗʰ century represented an attempt to transform
A) a public good into a private good.
B) a private good into a public good.
C) a private good into a common resource.
D) a common resource into a private good.

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The enclosure movement involved taking land that had previously been used as a common resource and privatizing it, often through the creation of individual landholdings. This transformed the land from a common resource into a private good.

The Enclosure Movement in England in the 17ᵗʰ Century Represented