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GCSE History · key term
A person who occupies or farms land belonging to a landlord, usually in return for rent.
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Paper 2
Revise: Migrants to and from BritainIn practice, however, many Irish families remained as tenants, often outnumbering the newcomers. Undertakers needed their rents and labour, especially where there were too few British settlers. Everyday co-operation therefore existed alongside dispossession and resentment.
Paper 3
A person who rents a home from a landlord.
Distinguish religious persecution from economic pressure. Huguenots fled persecution, while Highland tenants were displaced by changes in estate management and worsening hardship.
Distinguish plantation rules from what happened in practice: Irish inhabitants were supposed to leave undertakers’ estates, but many remained as tenants.
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