History A-Level
Pressure and resistance
What Pressure and resistance means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Pressure and resistance
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Pressure came from industrialisation, population shift, radical agitation and later Chartism, while resistance came from landowners, the Lords and fears of democracy.
Topics that use Pressure and resistance
- Paper 3, Option 36.1: Protest, agitation and parliamentary reform in Britain, c1780–1928 - 1 Reform of parliament (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Failed reform and resistance
- Legislative change
- Problems of representation
- Democratisation and its limits
- Extent of democratisation
- Franchise and representation
- Parliamentary reform legislation
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