History GCSE
Resistance to British authority
What Resistance to British authority means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Resistance to British authority
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The First Continental Congress established the Continental Association to enforce a boycott of British goods in opposition to the Coercive Acts.
Topics that use Resistance to British authority
- Option P2: Key topic 3: The loss of an empire, 1765–83 - 1 American colonist relations with Britain: growing opposition, 1765-75 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Boston Tea Party
- Colonial unity
- Escalation of conflict
- First Continental Congress
- Intolerable Acts
- Political organisation
- Popular protest and violence
- Radicalisation and propaganda
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