Summary GCSE AQA History POWER AND THE PEOPLE checklist - grade 9 - made directly from the specification

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Paper 2: 2hrs, 84 marks (Inc 4 for SPAG), 50% Of GCSE
AB: Power and the People – c1170 to the present day (25%)
Challenging authority and feudalism
Constraints on Kingship
Baron’s dissatisfaction with King John
Magna Carta
Short and long term impacts
Origins of parliament:
Issues between King Henry II and his barons
Role of Sime de Montfort
Provisions of Oxford
Short and long term impacts
Parliament of 1265
Short and long term impacts
Peasants revolt
Short and long term impacts

Challenging royal authority
Pilgrimage of Grace
Causes
Implications for royal authority + response
Short and long term impact
Divine Right + Parliamentary authority
Causes of the English Civil War
New Model Army
Political radicalism during Civil War era
Short and long term impacts
Execution of Charles I
Oliver Cromwell + the Commonwealth
Royal authority + the right to representation
Causes of the American Revolution
Impact + significance

Reform and Reformers
Extension of the franchise
Radical Protest
Great Reform Act
Causes + Impact
Further reform:
Chartism, causes, actions + impact
Protest and Change
Campaigning groups
Their methods + Impact
Anti-slavery movement
Anti-Corn Law League
Factory + social reformers
Workers Movements
Development of trade unionism + its impact
Grand National Consolidation Trades Unions
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