Eduqas GCSE History key terms

A makeshift settlement of shacks built by homeless people during the Great Depression, named to express blame for President Hoover.

The Order of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem, which originated in a hospice caring for pilgrims before the First Crusade and subsequently developed military responsibilities.

A person held captive to put pressure on another person or group to comply with demands.

A full-time professional household soldier serving a ruler or noble in Anglo-Saxon England.

The elected chamber of Parliament, whose members are MPs and which approves taxation, spending and legislation.

An institution where people considered idle or disorderly could be confined, punished and made to work.

The unelected chamber of Parliament, dominated in this period by hereditary peers, which could reject legislation before its powers were restricted in 1911.

An alarm calling members of the community together to pursue a suspected offender.

The supreme Aztec ruler, often called the emperor, whose authority combined political, military and religious leadership.

An old ship used as a floating prison, including for convicts awaiting transportation.

The killing of a person as a religious offering to a god.

The prolonged conflict between England and France which began in 1337. The expense of campaigning helped drive taxation before the Peasants’ Revolt.

A refusal to eat as a form of protest, used by imprisoned suffragettes.

A Parliament in which no single party has an overall majority of seats in the House of Commons.

Practices that maintain cleanliness and help prevent disease, such as washing and safely handling waste.

An extremely rapid rise in prices which causes money to lose its purchasing power.

An intercontinental ballistic missile: a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead between continents.

A system of beliefs about how society and government should be organised.

Moving into another country to live there.

A numerical limit on immigration; American quota laws restricted admissions according to nationality.

Protection against a particular disease.

A medicine that reduces the activity of the immune system, helping to prevent it attacking a transplanted organ.

The formal charging of a president or another federal official by the House of Representatives. A Senate trial then determines whether the official should be removed.

A policy of extending a country’s power through control over other territories and peoples.

A tax charged on goods brought into a country.

An Elizabethan term for people unable to work because of age, illness or disability.

Taking men into military service by force, especially into the Royal Navy.