Social and economic change
What Social and economic change means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Poverty grew due to population rise, inflation, enclosure, bad harvests and the dissolution of the monasteries, which removed a traditional source of charity.
The rise of the merchant classes and the radicalism of the Levellers during this period.
Topics that use Social and economic change
- 1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702 – consequence in this period through the following key questions: (AQA A-Level)
- State control and popular resistance, 1509–88 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- 1689 Toleration Act
- Arminianism
- Central versus local authority
- Clarendon Code
- Coercion and consent in Tudor rule
- Constitutional change
- Divine Right
- Extra-parliamentary resistance
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