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Union
Learning Outcomes
As a result of working on this programme, pupils will understand and/or appreciate:
- the economic and political background to the period of Union from 1695 to 1715
- that some Scottish merchants and nobles hoped that a Union would strengthen Scotland's economy
- that Protestants in Scotland and England hoped that Union would ensure that the Catholic Stuarts were kept off the throne
- that Edinburgh in the Union period was a hotbed of corruption, espionage and political intrigue
- the key articles of the Treaty of Union
- the political process in Edinburgh and London which led to the United Kingdom
- that the Union was unpopular with the vast majority of Scots and brought few immediate benefits to Scotland
- that opinions in Scotland about the Union differed in 1707 and have continued to differ
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