History A-Level
Free trade and foreign investment
What Free trade and foreign investment means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Free trade and foreign investment
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Policies promoted by Cavour that widened markets through trade agreements with Britain, France and Belgium and secured foreign investment.
Topics that use Free trade and foreign investment
- Paper 2, Option 2D.1: The unification of Italy, c1830–70 - 2 The rise of Piedmont, 1849–56 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Anticlericalism and state–Church conflict
- Cavour's economic statesmanship
- Cavour's political strategy and the Connubio
- Constitutional monarchy under the Statuto
- Infrastructure and transport
- Mazzini
- Piedmont
- Roman Republic
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