Government economic policy
What Government economic policy means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Measures that gradually shifted towards free trade, with Huskisson reducing tariffs on imports and relaxing the Navigation Acts as President of the Board of Trade.
Poor Law legislation of the same decade is linked directly to the social discontent caused by economic depression in the 1590s.
Topics that use Government economic policy
- 1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 – The triumph of Elizabeth, 1563–1603 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- 1F Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885 – Government and a changing society, 1812–1832 (AQA A-Level)
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