Smuggling
What Smuggling means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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A crime that thrived due to high import duties on goods like tea, often supported by local communities, and faded when taxes were reduced in the 1840s.
Trading illegally, for example with French and Spanish territories, to avoid duties and secure better prices.
Topics that use Smuggling
- Option 10: c1700–c1900: Crime and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Britain - 1 Nature and changing definitions of criminal activity (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option P2: Key topic 1: British settlement in North America, 1713–41 - 3 Problems within the colonies (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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