What are the causes and impacts of Peasant’s Revolt?

There are many causes for the Peasants Revolt, such as economic factors could of caused
the Peasants Revolt to occur. One of the main reasons why Peasants Revolt occurred was
due to the Black Death or also known as the Plague. This spread quickly and hit Dorset in
1348 in which a lot of peasants have died due to the fact that they couldn’t obtain a proper
medical advice or seek for medical help and also the young and the strong were as much
risk as the old and ill and this meant that everybody who caught this plague meant that they
were killed. Another reason would be is that England took part in a war known as the
Hundred Years war and due to this a lot of ports and towns were damaged and also it was
disrupting the trade which meant that it was hard for the peasants to work because
peasants worked in factories and disrupting the trade means it is harder to keep the
workforce working properly and this made the Peasants to suffer due to this cause.
Economical was a factor for causing the Peasants revolt as due to the Black Death this
caused many sheep and cattle to die so this means that Landlords increased the prices of
rent and food became expensive as well. In addition, due to the feudal system it meant that
the poor was struggling to survive as according to the Feudal System they were at the
bottom so this meant that it would be hard as they were being unpaid for working for their
local lord.
The Short-term impact of the Peasants Revolt was that the ruling class did receive a serious
warning about the lower class that they were capable for organising themselves into a force
and to be reckoned with. The rebels also showed the powerful how vulnerable they were.
The rebels also demanded an end to bonded labour and also the fact that all men should be
free. Many landowners decided to protect themselves against further revolt by freeing
villein and reducing rent. The long-term impact of the peasant’s revolts is the idea behind it
because they did not die away, especially the ideas of equality and individual liberty that
was expressed by John Ball. John Ball’s slogan was used by the early socialists and also
written a book about it. The same ideas were regularly used by the labourers in forming the
first trade unions and many Victorian social reformers were influenced by the idea behind
the revolt.