Transportation
What Transportation means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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A punishment introduced under James I in which criminals were sent to the American colonies to perform hard labour, offering an alternative to execution while removing the offender from society.
Sending criminals to Australia to remove them, which ended in 1868 due to costs, colonial opposition and changing penal views.
Topics that use Transportation
- Option 10: c1500–c1700: Crime and punishment in early modern England - 2 The nature of law enforcement and punishment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 10: c1700–c1900: Crime and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Britain - 2 The nature of law enforcement and punishment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Bloody Code
- Capital punishment
- CID
- Corporal punishment
- Hue and cry
- Prison reform
- The Bloody Code
- The purpose of punishment
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