Migration, Empires and the People in Britain, c790 to the Present Day | AQA GCSE History (8145)
Migration, Empires and the People in Britain, c790 to the Present Day
- 158 questions
- 13 subtopics
- Paper 2
- Paper 2
Migration, Empires and the People in Britain, c790 to the Present Day is examined in Paper 2, Shaping the nation.
It covers the factors that shape this study, invasion: the Vikings, the Danelaw and the North Sea Empire, A Norman Kingdom and ‘Angevin’ Empire, the birth of English identity, sugar and the Caribbean, Colonisation in North America, migrants to and from Britain, expansion in India, expansion in Africa, migrants to, from and within Britain, the end of Empire, the legacy of Empire and Britain’s relationship with Europe and its impact.
Sample questions from Migration, Empires and the People in Britain, c790 to the Present Day
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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The factors that shape this study
How did Parliament decide who could come and settle in Britain?
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Its laws opened the door, confirming after 1945 that Commonwealth citizens were British subjects free to come, and later closed it by restricting who could enter. -
Invasion: the Vikings, the Danelaw and the North Sea Empire
How did Alfred defend his kingdom against further attack?
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He built a ring of fortified towns called burhs, split the militia so half was always under arms, and had larger ships built to meet raiders at sea. -
The birth of English identity
Who was Joan of Arc and what difference did she make?
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A peasant girl who believed God had sent her; she inspired the relief of Orléans in 1429 and the crowning of Charles VII, and the war turned France’s way from then on. -
Sugar and the Caribbean
How did enslaved people resist?
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By breaking tools, working slowly, running away and rising in revolt; the Maroons of Jamaica held the mountains and fought the British to a treaty. -
Migrants to and from Britain
What were the Highland clearances?
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The eviction of tenant families from the Scottish Highlands by their landlords, from the later eighteenth century into the nineteenth, to make room for sheep. -
Expansion in India
What changed in the government of India after the rebellion?
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The Company was abolished and the crown ruled directly through a viceroy, and Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India in 1876. -
Migrants to, from and within Britain
Why did Jewish families come to Britain from the 1880s?
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They were escaping pogroms and legal persecution in the Russian Empire, and many tens of thousands settled in Britain before 1914. -
The end of Empire
Why was Suez a turning point?
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It proved Britain could no longer act as a great power against American wishes, and nationalist movements across Africa took heart from its weakness.
The 13 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| The factors that shape this study | How war, religion, government, economics, technology, ideas about race and civilisation, and individuals have driven the movement of peoples into and out of Britain and the growth and end of its empire. | 22 |
| Invasion: the Vikings, the Danelaw and the North Sea Empire | Who the Vikings were and why they raided, the longship, the Anglo-Saxons, the Danelaw and its legacy, Alfred's victory at Edington and his burhs, Cnut's North Sea Empire, and the marriages of Emma of Normandy. | 12 |
| A Norman Kingdom and ‘Angevin’ Empire | What 1066 changed between England and France, Henry II's lands and how he gained them, his expedition to Ireland, French as the ruling language, John's losses, Bouvines, and how the nobility became English. | 11 |
| The birth of English identity | The Hundred Years' War, Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the longbow, Joan of Arc, the end at Castillon, how the war sharpened Englishness, English replacing French, Parliament's gains, and what defeat left behind. | 10 |
| Sugar and the Caribbean | Elizabethan privateers and John Hawkins, the triangular trade and the Middle Passage, sugar on Barbados, Jamaica and the other islands, life and resistance on the sugar estates, the ports and families that grew rich from the trade, and how sugar changed daily life in Britain. | 12 |
| Colonisation in North America | Why England wanted colonies, Raleigh and Roanoke, Jamestown and its starving time, tobacco, the Pilgrim Fathers, colonial goods, indentured servants, relations with native peoples, why the colonists rebelled, and what losing them meant. | 12 |
| Migrants to and from Britain | The Huguenots who fled France after 1685 and the skills they brought, the Highland clearances and what became of the evicted families, the Ulster plantations and the division they left in Ireland, and what these three movements of people had in common. | 11 |
| Expansion in India | The East India Company and its cargoes, Clive at Plassey, why Bengal mattered, Warren Hastings, the sepoys and the rebellion of 1857, crown rule, what British rule built and harmed, and what India gave Britain. | 12 |
| Expansion in Africa | Early trade and missionaries such as David Livingstone, the occupation of Egypt and the Suez Canal, the Scramble for Africa and the Berlin Conference, Cecil Rhodes and his Cape to Cairo ambition, the Boer War and its concentration camps, and how empire was sold to the public at home. | 12 |
| Migrants to, from and within Britain | The Irish after the Famine, the hostility they met, Jewish refugees from the 1880s, transportation and the Tolpuddle Martyrs, emigration to the colonies, Asian settlement in East Africa, and the move from countryside to town. | 11 |
| The end of Empire | How the two world wars loosened Britain's grip, the Amritsar massacre, Gandhi's civil disobedience and the Salt March, Indian independence and partition in 1947, the Suez Crisis, Nkrumah and Ghana, the Mau Mau rebellion and Kenyan independence, and Macmillan's wind of change. | 11 |
| The legacy of Empire | The Empire Windrush and Caribbean migration, the work migrants found and the hostility they met, Claudia Jones and the Notting Hill Carnival, South Asian settlement and the Ugandan Asians of 1972, the Commonwealth, the Falklands War, and Britain as a multicultural society. | 11 |
| Britain’s relationship with Europe and its impact | Britain's standing after 1945, Polish settlers, staying out of the European Economic Community and joining, membership and trade, the Cold War's end, migration after 2004, continental influences, and the argument behind the 2016 referendum. | 11 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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