OCR GCSE History A J410
Castles: Form and Function c.1000–1750Historic environment
China 1950–1981: The People and the StateDepth study
Germany 1925–1955: The People and the StateDepth study
International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975
Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010Thematic study
Personal Rule to Restoration 1629–1660British depth
Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c.1000 to 2014Thematic study
South Africa 1960–1994: The People and the StateDepth study
The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550British depth
The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730British depth
The USA 1919–1948: The People and the StateDepth study
The USA 1945–1974: The People and the StateDepth study
Urban Environments: Patterns of MigrationHistoric environment
War and British Society c.790 to c.2010Thematic study
The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730
The Treaty of Utrecht, the South Sea Bubble and the slave-based colonial economy
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Overview
The settlement of the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain's gains and the Asiento, the South Sea Company and the crash of 1720, what the colonies sent to Britain, the Navigation Acts, sugar and enslaved labour, the Middle Passage and the slave codes.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What did Britain gain by the treaty of 1713?
What happened when the South Sea Company scheme collapsed in 1720?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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Which war did the Treaty of Utrecht end, and how was the Spanish crown settled?
Model answer
The War of the Spanish Succession; Philip V kept Spain and its empire but gave up for ever any claim to the throne of France.
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What did Britain gain by the treaty of 1713?
Model answer
Gibraltar and Minorca in the Mediterranean, and from France Newfoundland, Acadia and the Hudson Bay lands in North America.
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What was the Asiento, won by Britain in 1713?
Model answer
The contract to supply enslaved Africans to Spain's American colonies for thirty years, together with the right to send one trading ship a year.
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What did the South Sea Company propose to do in 1719?
Model answer
To take over most of the national debt, paying the government's creditors in its own shares in return for interest and its monopoly of trade with Spanish America.
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What happened when the scheme collapsed in 1720?
Model answer
Shares talked up from little over £100 to about £1,000 fell back within months and ruined thousands of investors. Ministers were found to have taken shares as bribes, the Chancellor was imprisoned, and Robert Walpole made his name by restoring confidence.
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What did the Caribbean and North American colonies each send to Britain?
Model answer
The Caribbean sent sugar, rum and molasses, the most valuable imports of all, while North America sent tobacco, rice, timber, furs and fish.
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