OCR GCSE History B · J411
Paper 1
Revise: Impact of governmentNational government usually intervened only in particular problems, notably plague and, later, the gin craze.
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GCSE History · key term
The rapid growth of cheap gin drinking, especially among poorer Londoners in the early eighteenth century, which created serious health and social problems.
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Paper 1
Revise: Impact of governmentNational government usually intervened only in particular problems, notably plague and, later, the gin craze.
Do not attribute the decline of the gin craze entirely to the 1751 Act: rising corn prices also made gin more expensive.
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