The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688-C.1730 | OCR GCSE History A (J410)
The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688-C.1730
- 80 questions
- 7 subtopics
- Paper 3
- Paper 3
The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730 is examined in Paper 3, British depth study with a study of the historic environment.
It covers the Glorious Revolution, the Hanoverian succession and the British Isles, darien, the Act of Union, the 1715 rising and emigration to the Americas, economic impact of war and imperial expansion, the Treaty of Utrecht, the South Sea Bubble and the slave-based colonial economy, consumerism, the slave-trading ports and the coffee houses, ideas of racial hierarchy, and opposition and resistance to slavery and what empire did to Britain and the British Isles.
Sample questions from The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688-C.1730
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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The Glorious Revolution, the Hanoverian succession and the British Isles
Which battle in July 1691 destroyed the main Jacobite army in Ireland?
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Aughrim, where the Jacobite line broke and their French commander St Ruth was killed by a cannon shot. -
The Glorious Revolution, the Hanoverian succession and the British Isles
Who were the Jacobites, and where in Scotland was their support strongest?
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Supporters of the exiled Stuarts, strongest in the Highlands where many clans were Catholic or Episcopalian and resented rule from London. -
Darien, the Act of Union, the 1715 rising and emigration to the Americas
What did the Act of Union of 1707 create?
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A single Parliament of Great Britain at Westminster, to which Scotland sent forty-five members of the Commons and sixteen representative peers. -
Darien, the Act of Union, the 1715 rising and emigration to the Americas
How did the rising of 1715 come to an end?
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Mar failed to win the indecisive battle of Sheriffmuir in November while the English Jacobites surrendered at Preston, and James arrived only in December and sailed away again in February 1716. -
Economic impact of war and imperial expansion
Why was the Bank of England set up in 1694?
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To lend the government £1.2 million for the war with France, in return for a charter and interest on the loan. -
Economic impact of war and imperial expansion
Why did Parliament pass the Calico Acts of 1700 and 1721?
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Because English wool and silk weavers protested that cheap Indian cotton cloth was ruining them, so first the import and then the wearing of printed calico was banned. -
The Treaty of Utrecht, the South Sea Bubble and the slave-based colonial economy
What did the South Sea Company propose to do in 1719?
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To take over most of the national debt, paying the government's creditors in its own shares in return for interest and its monopoly of trade with Spanish America. -
The Treaty of Utrecht, the South Sea Bubble and the slave-based colonial economy
Why did the sugar islands come to rely on enslaved African labour?
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When planters turned from tobacco to sugar in the 1640s they needed far more workers, and they replaced indentured English servants with Africans who could be held for life and whose children were held too.
The 7 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| The Glorious Revolution, the Hanoverian succession and the British Isles | William and Mary, James II in Ireland, the siege of Derry, the Boyne and Aughrim, Limerick and the penal laws, the Act of Settlement, the Claim of Right, Killiecrankie, the Jacobites and the Glencoe massacre. | 14 |
| Darien, the Act of Union, the 1715 rising and emigration to the Americas | The Darien Scheme, its failure and cost, the Act of Union and what Scotland kept, the Earl of Mar's rising of 1715, its grievances and end, and voluntary emigration and forced transportation to the American colonies. | 10 |
| Economic impact of war and imperial expansion | The two wars with France and their cost, the navy, why Parliament mattered, the Bank of England, East India Company goods from India and China, Kolkata, the Calico Acts and the African trade opened. | 14 |
| The Treaty of Utrecht, the South Sea Bubble and the slave-based colonial economy | The settlement of the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain's gains and the Asiento, the South Sea Company and the crash of 1720, what the colonies sent to Britain, the Navigation Acts, sugar and enslaved labour, the Middle Passage and the slave codes. | 10 |
| Consumerism, the slave-trading ports and the coffee houses | New goods in ordinary households, sugar, shops and customs revenue, merchants' country houses, the West India lobby, London, Bristol and Liverpool as slaving ports, smaller ports and investors ashore, and coffee houses, Lloyd's and the press after 1695. | 14 |
| Ideas of racial hierarchy, and opposition and resistance to slavery | Claims of African inferiority, Britain's settled minority communities, baptism and the courts, daily life for Black people in Britain, the Quakers' early protest, and resistance on the slave ships, by the Maroons of Jamaica and on the plantations. | 8 |
| What empire did to Britain and the British Isles | Ports and manufacturing towns, winners and losers, where profit and suffering fell, the debt, taxes and navy, Protestant Ireland, Scotland's losses and gains, the Jacobite danger, emigration, Britain's standing in 1713 and a British empire. | 10 |
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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