History A-Level
Financial weakness
What Financial weakness means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Financial weakness
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Reference: AQA
The Crown's inadequate ordinary revenue caused constant friction and led to controversial expedients like impositions and the Forced Loan.
Topics that use Financial weakness
- 1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702 – Monarchs and Parliaments, 1603–1629 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Crown and Parliament
- Foreign policy
- Land ownership
- Merchants
- Personal Rule
- Political Nation
- Radicalism vs Conservatism
- Religious division
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