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AQA AS-Level History 7042
1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204
Topic overviewThe Church, the Seljuk Turks and Byzantium before the CrusadesManzikert and the Call of the First CrusadeThe First Crusade: Motives and CampaignThe Kings of Jerusalem and the Early Crusader StatesThe Knights Templar and the HospitallersThe Crusader States, Byzantium and the Latin WestZengi and the Fall of EdessaThe Second Crusade
1B Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469–1598
Topic overviewThe Kingdoms of Iberia in 1469Ferdinand, Isabella and the NobilityForeign Policy, Society and the Church under Ferdinand and IsabellaThe Inquisition, the Jews and the Fall of GranadaThe Alpujarras Revolt, the Economy and Overseas ExpansionThe Casa de Contratacion, Navarre and Spain by 1516The Inheritance of Charles VImperial Ideology and Conciliar GovernmentCharles V's Wars, Absences and Religious PolicyThe Conquest of the Americas and the Price RevolutionCharles V's Abdication and Spain by 1556
1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603
Topic overviewHenry VII's Claim to the ThroneHenry VII's Councils and GovernmentHenry VII's Finances, the Nobility and Foreign PolicyPretenders and Rebellions under Henry VIISociety and the Economy under Henry VIIReligion, Humanism and the Arts under Henry VIIHenry VIII: Character and AimsWolsey, Cromwell and the Break with RomeThe Dissolution, Foreign Policy and Henry VIII's WivesThe Ranks of Tudor SocietyThe Pilgrimage of Grace, Wales and the Henrician EconomyHumanism and Religious Change under Henry VIII
1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702
Topic overviewThe Political Nation, Divine Right and James ICourt, Crown Finance and Religious Division, 1603-1629Disputes between Crown and ParliamentArminianism, Puritanism and the Revenues of the Personal RuleThe Personal Rule, the Long Parliament and the Road to WarThe First Civil WarThe Second Civil War and the LevellersThe Army, Parliament and the Regicide
1E Russia in the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment, 1682–1796
Topic overviewRussian Society and Government in 1682The Succession Crisis of 1682 and the StreltsyPeter's Western Interests, the Great Embassy and St PetersburgPeter I's Early Economic, Political and Military ReformsOpposition to Peter's Reforms and the Streltsy RevoltThe Azov Campaigns and the Battle of NarvaThe Poll Tax and State MonopoliesThe Holy Synod, the Senate and Church ReformThe Colleges, Provincial Government and the Table of RanksWesternisation, Opposition and Peter's Legacy by 1725The Great Northern War and Peter's Foreign PolicyThe Service State under Peter the Great
1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885
Topic overviewThe British Political System in 1783Pitt the Younger and His MinistriesPitt's Financial and Trade ReformsEarly Industrialisation: Textiles, Iron and SteamEnclosure and Agricultural ChangeSocial Classes, Working Conditions and the Old Poor LawThe French Revolution and British RadicalismThe Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Act of UnionThe Wars with France and the Home FrontLuddism and Britain by 1812Lord Liverpool, the Corn Laws and PeterlooCanning, Wellington and Catholic EmancipationTextiles, Iron, Coal and the Common LandsUrbanisation and Working-Class DiscontentRadicals, Abolitionists and the Rise of MethodismThe Great Reform Act of 1832
1G Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851–1964
Topic overviewParliament and the Franchise before 1867The Second Reform Act, Gladstone and DisraeliThe Workshop of the World, Free Trade and Agricultural DepressionClass and Region in Victorian BritainThe Domestic Reforms of Gladstone and DisraeliIreland, the Great Famine and the Land QuestionGladstone's Home Rule Bill and Its OpponentsConservative Dominance before 1905Socialism and the Birth of the Labour PartyNew Liberalism, the People's Budget and the Parliament ActThe Great Depression, Industrial Decline and Tariff ReformNew Unionism, the Great Unrest and Women's SuffrageLiving Standards, Poverty and the Liberal Welfare ReformsThe Home Rule Movement and the Irish Party
1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964
Topic overviewAutocracy and Serfdom in 1855The Emancipation of the Serfs and Alexander II's ReformsReform, Reaction and the Death of Alexander IIPobedonostsev and RussificationLiberals, Populists and the Tsarist PoliceEconomy and Society after EmancipationNicholas II, Bloody Sunday and the Fundamental LawsThe Dumas, Stolypin and Witte's IndustrialisationWorkers, Peasants and the Grain TradeLiberals, Socialist Revolutionaries and MarxistsThe First World War and the February RevolutionLenin's Return and the October RevolutionLenin's Ideology, War Communism and KronstadtStalin's Rise and the Power Struggle
1J The British Empire, c1857–1967
Topic overviewThe Suez Canal and the Occupation of EgyptThe Indian Mutiny and the Government of India ActThe Scramble for Africa and the Chartered CompaniesMissionaries, the Civilising Mission and Party Attitudes to EmpireThe Boers, the Zulu War and Southern AfricaExpansion in Africa and the Government of IndiaLord Cromer and the Veiled Protectorate in EgyptIndirect Rule and the Entente CordialeChamberlain, Tariff Reform and Cecil RhodesThe Justifications for Empire and National EfficiencyExhibitions, Youth Movements and Popular ImperialismThe Boer War and the Union of South Africa
1K The Making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–1975
Topic overviewJohnson, Grant and Radical ReconstructionThe Redeemers and the Gilded Age PresidentsThe Post-Reconstruction South and Jim CrowThe Railroad Boom and Big Business in the Gilded AgeThe Closing of the Frontier and Gilded Age Foreign PolicyThe Populist Movement and the People's PartyProgressivism and Roosevelt's Square DealWilson's New Freedom and America's Economic RiseImmigration, Urban Growth and SegregationAmerican Imperialism and the War of 1898Neutrality and Entry into the First World WarAmerican Society and Industrial Power by 1920
1L The Quest for Political Stability: Germany, 1871–1991
Topic overviewThe States of the German Empire in 1871The Constitution of 1871: Bundesrat and ReichstagBismarck's Domestic PoliciesWilhelm II and WeltpolitikGerman Industrial Power before 1914The Burgertum and the Prestige of the EliteWorkers, Pressure Groups and Germany by 1914War, Revolution and the Weimar Constitution, 1914-1919Reparations, Putsches and the Crisis of 1923Stresemann, the Dawes Plan and Locarno
2A Royal Authority and the Angevin Kings, 1154–1216
2B The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499
2C The Reformation in Europe, c1500–1564
Topic overviewPapal Supremacy and the Church HierarchySalvation and the Seven SacramentsCorruption, Humanism and Demands for Reform before 1517The Holy Roman Empire and Its ElectorsThe Imperial Diet, the Young Luther and the 95 ThesesThe Disputations, Luther's Theology and the 1520 TreatisesLuther in Print, Excommunication and the Diet of WormsKarlstadt, the Zwickau Prophets and Luther's ReturnZwingli, the Eucharist and the Knights' RevoltThe German Peasants' WarThe Swiss Reformation, the Kappel Wars and MarburgThe Diets of Speyer, the Augsburg Confession and Melanchthon
2D Religious Conflict and the Church in England, c1529–c1570
Topic overviewThe English Church and Its Wealth in 1529Humanism and the Call for Church ReformHenry VIII's Great MatterThe Reformation Parliament and the Break with RomeReformist and Conservative Factions at CourtFaction, Diplomacy and the DissolutionThe Reasons for and Effects of the DissolutionThe Pilgrimage of GraceThe Ten Articles, the Six Articles and the King's BookReligion and War in Henry VIII's Last Years
2E The English Revolution, 1625–1660
Topic overviewJames I's Legacy and Charles I's KingshipCharles I, Buckingham and the Petition of RightThe Personal Rule and Its MinistersLaud's Reforms and Protestant FearsThe Scottish Prayer Book and Thorough in IrelandPuritan Emigration, the National Covenant and the First Bishops' WarThe Bishops' Wars and the Recall of ParliamentCharles I and the Parliamentary Opposition in 1640John Pym and the Long ParliamentDeadlock, the Fall of Strafford and the Irish RebellionThe Attempt on the Five MembersThe Militia Ordinance and the Drift to WarThe Nineteen Propositions and the Outbreak of War
2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715
Topic overviewRichelieu and the Regency of Anne of AustriaMazarin, the Parlement and the FrondesWestphalia and the Treaty of the PyreneesThe Start of Personal Rule and France in 1661Louis XIV's Conception of KingshipThe Royal Council, the Intendants and VersaillesColbert, Mercantilism and the Royal AcademiesThe Huguenots and the Edict of FontainebleauGloire, Foreign Policy Aims and Louvois's ArmyThe Decline of Spain and Louis XIV's Wars to 1684
2G The Birth of the USA, 1760–1801
Topic overviewMercantilism, Salutary Neglect and the Colonies in 1760The Thirteen Colonies and the Impact of the Seven Years WarFrom the Proclamation of 1763 to the Boston Tea PartyThe Intolerable Acts of 1774The First Continental CongressCommon Sense and the Organisation of ResistanceGeneral Gage and the Road to LexingtonThe Declaration of Independence
2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815
Topic overviewLouis XVI and French AbsolutismThe Three Estates and Seigneurial RightsTaxation and the Weaknesses of the Ancien RegimeThe Philosophes and the EnlightenmentThe Financial Crisis of the Ancien RegimeCalonne and the Assembly of NotablesThe Crisis of 1788 and the Estates-GeneralThe Cahiers and the Opening of the Estates-GeneralThe National Assembly and the Fall of the BastilleThe Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the Constitution of 1791The Political Clubs, Varennes and the Fall of the MonarchyThe Founding of the RepublicThe Execution of Louis XVI, the Vendee and the Federalist RevoltThe Levee en Masse and the Coming of the TerrorThe Fall of the Factions and the Great TerrorThermidor and the Dismantling of the TerrorVendemiaire and the Directory
2J America: A Nation Divided, c1845–1877
Topic overviewFederalism and States' RightsThe Northern Economy by 1845Cotton, Plantations and the Southern EconomyThe Missouri Compromise and the Nullification CrisisManifest Destiny and the Compromise of 1850The Fugitive Slave Law, Abolitionism and Pro-Slavery ArgumentsThe Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding KansasThe Formation of the Republican PartyDred Scott, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and Harper's FerryThe Election of 1860, Secession and Fort Sumter
2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941
Topic overviewHow Britain and France Made Foreign PolicyThe Economic and Military Strength of the Great PowersThe Scramble for Africa and Great Power RivalryBalkan Nationalism and Austria-HungaryThe Naval Race, the Arms Race and War PlansThe Moroccan CrisesThe Entente Cordiale and the Triple EntenteThe Decline of the Ottoman EmpireThe Bosnian Crisis of 1908The Balkan WarsSarajevo and the Austrian UltimatumMobilisation and the Schlieffen PlanThe July CrisisItaly, the USA and the Widening War
2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945
Topic overviewA Young Kingdom: North, South and the RisorgimentoThe Italian Monarchy and the Narrow FranchiseGiolitti and the Gentiloni PactIndustrial Growth, Socialism and Labour UnrestNationalism, Futurism and the Triple AllianceIntervention in 1915 and Italy's War AimsThe Isonzo Front and CaporettoThe Home Front and the Peace SettlementFiume and the Mutilated VictoryPost-War Crisis and Political InstabilityThe Biennio Rosso and the Fascist ResponseThe March on Rome and Mussolini's AppointmentWhy the Elites Accepted MussoliniFascist Ideology, the Ras and the Cult of the DuceThe Grand Council, the Acerbo Law and the Matteotti CrisisBuilding the Dictatorship, 1925-1926Corfu, Fiume and the Consolidation of Power
2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957
Topic overviewThe Liberal Landslide of 1906 and New LiberalismThe Lib-Lab Pact, Tariff Reform and the Edwardian EconomyEdwardian Class, Poverty and the People's BudgetThe Liberal Welfare ReformsThe Parliament Act, Women's Suffrage and Home RuleThe Labour Unrest of 1910 to 1914The Wartime Coalitions and the Liberal SplitThe War Economy, DORA and Post-War IndustryWomen's War Work, the Vote and ConscriptionThe War Poets, the Easter Rising and Irish IndependenceLiberal Decline, the First Labour Government and BaldwinThe Return to Gold, the Coal Crisis and the General StrikeThe Divided Regions, Women and Culture in the 1920sThe Flapper Vote and the 1929 Election
2N Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953
Topic overviewTsarism and the Strain of War by 1917The February RevolutionThe Provisional Government and the April ThesesThe October RevolutionThe First Decrees, the Constituent Assembly and the Leaders of 1917The Cheka and the Rise of One-Party RuleBrest-Litovsk and the Causes of the Civil WarTrotsky and the Building of the Red ArmyWhy the Reds Won the Civil WarBolshevik Social Reform, War Communism and the Red TerrorTambov and KronstadtThe New Economic PolicyForeign Intervention, the Comintern and Soviet DiplomacyLenin's Death, His Testament and the Contenders for PowerPermanent Revolution and Socialism in One CountryThe Defeat of the Oppositions and the Great TurnThe Stalin Cult and Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1920s
2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Topic overviewThe Collapse of 1918 and the Kiel MutinyThe Weimar Constitution and the Terms of VersaillesThe Military Terms of Versailles and German ReactionsThe Ruhr Occupation and the Hyperinflation of 1923The Spartacist Uprising and the FreikorpsThe Ruhr Crisis, the Courts and the Munich PutschThe Munich Putsch and Weimar's CoalitionsStresemann and the Dawes PlanWeimar Culture: Bauhaus, Art and TheatreHindenburg's Election and the Golden YearsStresemann's Foreign Policy and LocarnoThe Wall Street Crash and the German BanksBruning's Deflation and the Nazi Electoral BreakthroughNazi Propaganda, the SA and Nazi AppealThe Divided Left, Hindenburg and PapenThe Prussian Coup and Hitler's Refusal of OfficeThe Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act and the End of DemocracyGleichschaltung and the One-Party StateThe Night of the Long Knives
2P The Transformation of China, 1936–1997
Topic overviewJapanese Encroachment and the GuomindangThe Encirclement Campaigns, the Long March and Mao's IdeologyYan'an, the Xi'an Incident and the Second United FrontThe Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945The Race for Territory and the Marshall MissionThe Nationalist Position in 1946The Civil War and the Nationalist CollapseChina in 1949 and the Founding of the RepublicThe Mass Campaigns and the Grip on PowerThe Soviet Alliance and the Korean WarThe Hundred Flowers and the First Five Year PlanThe Great Leap Forward and the People's CommunesRectification, the Marriage Law and Social Change
2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980
Topic overviewAmerican Power and Politics in 1945Truman and the Fair DealContainment, NATO and the Korean WarTaft-Hartley, the 1948 Election and McCarthyismCivil Rights in the Truman YearsEisenhower and Modern RepublicanismThe Fall of McCarthy and the Fifties EconomySuburbia, the Highways and the New LookHungary, Rollback and the Berlin CrisisEisenhower, South Vietnam and SEATOBrown, Montgomery and Little RockThe Election of 1960The New Frontier and the Berlin WallCivil Rights under Kennedy and America by 1963
2R The Cold War, c1945–1991
Topic overviewYalta, Potsdam and the Wartime AllianceThe Sovietisation of Eastern EuropeThe Marshall Plan and American Aid to EuropeThe Division of Germany, the Berlin Blockade and NATOJapan, China and NSC-68Korea in 1950 and the UN ResponseMcCarthyism and the Isolation of ChinaNATO, the Warsaw Pact and the First Indochina WarKhrushchev and the Crises of 1956 in Poland and HungaryThe Hungarian Uprising, Peaceful Coexistence and the Paris SummitThe U-2 Affair, the Missile Race and the Space RaceThe Berlin Crisis and the Berlin WallThe Division of Vietnam and the NLFCuba, the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis
2S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–2007
Topic overviewThe Conservative Prime Ministers, 1951 to 1964The Long Boom and Stop-GoWomen, Youth, Immigration and the Notting Hill RiotsForeign Policy, Suez and Decolonisation, 1951-1964Harold Wilson and the National PlanDevaluation and Labour's Economic Policy, 1965-1969In Place of Strife, Education and Northern IrelandThe Abolition of Hanging and Divorce ReformThe Media, the Permissive Society and Race in the 1960sVietnam, the EEC Veto and the Atlantic AllianceHeath, the 1970 Election and Selsdon ParkThe Industrial Relations Act and the 1972 StrikeThe Oil Crisis and the Second Miners' StrikeNorthern Ireland from Bloody Sunday to SunningdaleThe Social Contract, the IMF Crisis and the Winter of DiscontentFeminism, Equality Legislation and Immigration in the 1970sPunk and the New Politics of the 1970sBritain's Entry into the EEC and the 1975 ReferendumThe Special Relationship and Detente in the 1970s
2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000
Topic overviewStalin's Death and the System He LeftKhrushchev's Rise and the Anti-Party GroupThe Secret Speech and De-StalinisationThe Sovnarkhozy, Housing and the ThawThe Virgin Lands Scheme and Agricultural FailureThe Thaw, China and Khrushchev's Foreign PolicyThe Fall of KhrushchevBrezhnev and His Leading ColleaguesThe Kosygin Reforms and Economic StagnationDetente, Afghanistan and the Second Cold WarDissidents and Nationalist Unrest under BrezhnevAndropov, Chernenko and the Rise of GorbachevGorbachev's Aims and PerestroikaGlasnost, Afghanistan and the End of the Cold WarChernobyl, Economic Restructuring and DemocratisationThe Opposition to GorbachevThe August Coup and the End of the USSRYeltsin and Shock TherapyPutin's Rise and the Second Chechen War
1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885
- 16 subtopics
- 69 things to know
- Component 1
What 1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885 covers
Option 1F is a breadth study of industrialising Britain, taken as one of the Component 1 choices. It follows the pressure for political change from the 1780s through the Great Reform Act and Chartism to the economy and politics of the mid-Victorian years.
Where it is assessed
Component 1
A breadth study, of which a student sits one.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 16 subtopics
Each one has its own page. AQA AS History students sit this topic in the first year.
- The British Political System in 1783Recall questions on the balance between Crown and Parliament, the powers the King kept and who appointed ministers.Open →
- Pitt the Younger and His MinistriesRecall questions on Pitt's rise to office at an unusually young age and the dates and character of his two ministries.Open →
- Pitt's Financial and Trade ReformsRecall questions on Pitt's Consolidated Fund and Sinking Fund, his reform of customs duties against smuggling, the income tax of 1799, and the Eden Treaty with France and Adam Smith's influence on freer trade.Open →
- Early Industrialisation: Textiles, Iron and SteamRecall questions on the move to factory production, the spinning jenny, water frame, mule and power loom, coke smelting and puddling in iron, the growth of coal and pottery, and Watt's steam engine and factory location.Open →
- Enclosure and Agricultural ChangeRecall questions on the land that was enclosed, the parliamentary process used and the consolidation of holdings that followed.Open →
- Social Classes, Working Conditions and the Old Poor LawRecall questions on the rising middle class and the landowners who still dominated, factory hours, discipline, hazards and child labour, the Old Poor Law and settlement laws, the standard of living debate and the Combination Acts.Open →
- The French Revolution and British RadicalismRecall questions on the French Revolution's appeal to British radicals, Burke's Reflections and Paine's Rights of Man, the London Corresponding Society, government repression and the treason trials of 1794, the Whig split and reformers' demands.Open →
- The Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Act of UnionRecall questions on the United Irishmen's rebellion of 1798, its French support and defeat, the Act of Union and the end of the Irish Parliament, and Pitt's resignation when George III blocked Catholic Emancipation.Open →
- The Wars with France and the Home FrontRecall questions on the long war with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and the Peace of Amiens, wartime repression and postponed reform, the national debt and income tax, the Continental System, food prices and impressment.Open →
- Luddism and Britain by 1812Recall questions on the Luddites of 1811 to 1812, where and why they broke machinery, the assassination of Spencer Perceval, economic distress, and how far Britain had changed by 1812 without political reform.Open →
- Lord Liverpool, the Corn Laws and PeterlooRecall questions on Liverpool's ministry, the Corn Laws of 1815, the Peterloo Massacre and the Six Acts of 1819, and the Combination Acts, their repeal in 1824 and the amending act of 1825.Open →
- Canning, Wellington and Catholic EmancipationRecall questions on the post-war slump and the response to radicals, the ministries of Canning, Goderich and Wellington, repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, Peel's Metropolitan Police, and O'Connell's campaign for Catholic Emancipation in 1829.Open →
- Textiles, Iron, Coal and the Common LandsRecall questions on mechanisation in textiles, the growth of iron and coal and what became of common land.Open →
- Urbanisation and Working-Class DiscontentRecall questions on migration to the factory towns, overcrowding and disease, the pessimist view of living standards, and working-class discontent from the Luddites to Spa Fields, the Blanketeers and the Cato Street Conspiracy.Open →
- Radicals, Abolitionists and the Rise of MethodismRecall questions on the leading radical reformers, the campaigners against slavery and the spread of Methodism.Open →
- The Great Reform Act of 1832Recall questions on Grey's Whigs and the demands of middle-class and working-class reformers, the political unions, the Days of May, the Act's changes to boroughs and the franchise, its limits and Britain's condition by 1832.Open →
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On what basis was the right to vote for the House of Commons determined in 1783?
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Which type of towns lacked parliamentary representation in 1783?
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How old was Pitt the Younger when he became Prime Minister?
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What was the outcome of the 1784 general election for Pitt?
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What did the Consolidated Fund combine?
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What transition in production methods characterised industrialisation in Britain?
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What was the water frame?
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What innovation mechanised the weaving process in the cotton industry?
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What types of land were enclosed during this period?
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What system improved soil fertility by alternating different crops?
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What local office did landowners typically hold?
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What principles of the French Revolution inspired British radicals?
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What political ideas did Paine advocate in Rights of Man?
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What methods did radical societies use to promote their ideas?
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What did reformers demand regarding the right to vote?
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Against which two phases of French government was Britain at war?
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What was impressment?
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How long did Lord Liverpool serve as Prime Minister, and what years did his administration span?
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What restrictions did the Six Acts of 1819 place on public gatherings?
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When and where did the Peterloo Massacre occur, and approximately how many people had gathered?
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After 1825, what specific matters were trade unions legally permitted to negotiate?
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When did the Duke of Wellington serve as Prime Minister, and what significant measure did he pass despite his conservative views?
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What strategy did the Catholic Association use to build support for emancipation?
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How did mechanisation affect the textile industry in this period?
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What happened to common lands during agricultural change in this period?
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What was the social consequence of agricultural change for rural labourers?
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Why did workers migrate to factory towns during industrialisation?
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What housing problem resulted from rapid urbanisation?
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What arguments do pessimists in the standard of living debate emphasise about industrialisation?
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Name three radical reformers of this period and state what they campaigned for.
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Who led the Whigs into government in 1830, and what were they committed to?
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Which areas gained parliamentary representation under the Great Reform Act?
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During which years did Lord Melbourne serve as Whig Prime Minister?
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What were the key principles of Whig ideology in the 1830s and 1840s?
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What internal division characterised the Tory party during its period in opposition from 1830 to 1841?
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How many hours per day were children aged nine to thirteen permitted to work under the Factory Act of 1833?
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What enforcement mechanism did the Factory Act of 1833 establish?
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What administrative structure did the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 create to oversee poor relief?
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Which point of the People's Charter addressed the unequal size of constituencies?
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What was the distinction between moral force Chartists and physical force Chartists?
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Why was opposition to the 1834 Poor Law particularly strong in northern industrial areas?
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What sanitary reforms did Chadwick advocate as essential to reducing disease and poor rates?
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What event beginning in 1845 created pressure for Corn Law repeal?
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What conditions did factory workers face in this period?
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What caused the Peelite faction to break away from the Conservative Party in 1846?
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Where and when did the Liberal Party formally emerge as a unified political party?
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Under which two leaders did the Conservative Party rebuild between 1846 and 1868?
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What moral dimension characterised Gladstonian Liberalism?
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How did Disraeli's One Nation Conservatism aim to address class divisions?
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What role did imperialism play in Disraeli's One Nation Conservatism?
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Who gained the vote under the Second Reform Act of 1867?
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What did the Chartist demand for equal electoral districts seek to achieve?
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What central body did the Public Health Act of 1848 establish?
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What was the mid-Victorian boom?
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What was high farming?
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What was the main source of cheap grain that contributed to the agricultural depression from the 1870s?
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What regional economic divisions existed in Britain during this period?
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What was the temperance movement that Evangelicals supported?
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What ideology did Samuel Smiles' Self-Help promote?
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What challenge did Britain face regarding its industrial position by 1885?
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What did the National Liberal Federation and Conservative National Union represent?
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What did 'free sale' mean under the Irish Land Act of 1881?
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Which reform movements grew in this period, and who campaigned in them?
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What did the Second and Third Reform Acts achieve?
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What did the parliamentary reformers demand?
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When did Pitt the Younger take office, and did he command a majority?
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What happened in the 1798 rising?
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Why did Luddites destroy machinery?
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Chartism vs Luddism
Chartism: mass movement seeking parliamentary reform through a national petition. Luddism: machine-breaking protest associated with threatened skilled workers.
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What type of governmental system did Britain operate under in 1783?
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A constitutional monarchy
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What significant executive powers did the King retain in 1783?
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The King retained significant executive power, including the appointment of ministers
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Who appointed government ministers in Britain in 1783?
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The King appointed ministers
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Which institution held legislative authority in Britain in 1783?
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Parliament (the House of Lords and House of Commons)
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On what basis was the right to vote for the House of Commons determined in 1783?
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A highly restricted franchise based on property qualifications
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What determined whether an individual could vote in 1783?
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Property qualifications
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1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885 revision questions
- Is 1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885 examined at AS in AQA History?
- Yes. It sits in Component 1, which you take in the first year, so it is on the AS paper as well as counting towards the full A level.
- What does 1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885 cover in AQA AS-Level History?
- 16 subtopics: the british political system in 1783, pitt the younger and his ministries, pitt's financial and trade reforms, early industrialisation: textiles, iron and steam, enclosure and agricultural change, social classes, working conditions and the old poor law, the french revolution and british radicalism, the irish rebellion of 1798 and the act of union, the wars with france and the home front, luddism and britain by 1812, lord liverpool, the corn laws and peterloo, canning, wellington and catholic emancipation, textiles, iron, coal and the common lands, urbanisation and working-class discontent, radicals, abolitionists and the rise of methodism and the great reform act of 1832. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is 1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885 organised?
- By the AQA 7042 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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