| A | B |
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| When was Charles I crowned? | 1625 |
| What are the features of Charles I rule? | Parliament refused to fund wars; got money from subjects and pressed the poor into service; dissolved Parliament and did not hold session for 11 years; tried to make the clergymen follow all of the rules of the Anglican church; Puritans rejected this and were persecuted; forced to fight Scottish rebels outraged about policy of religious conformity; summoned to Parliament for money; Parliment passed many reforms; when Charles I outmaneuvered the reformers, he was labelled a tyrant |
| When was the civil war? | 1641-1651 |
| Who was Charles Cromwell and when? | 1645; he was on the other side from the king; led Parliament forces to defeat the Royalist army |
| When was Charles I taken prisoner, by whom, and of what was he convicted? | 1647; radical Puritans who dominated Parliament tried the king and convicted him of treason |
| How did Charles I die? | 1649; he was beheaded |
| What did Charles Cromwell do? | Dissolved Parliament in 1653 and named himself Lord Protector; outlawed gambling, horse racing, newspapers. fancy clothes, public dancing, theater |
| How did ordinary people react to Charles Cromwell? | Public discontent |
| When did Charles Cromwell die? | 1658 |
| When was the monarchy restored? | 1660 |
| What were the features of Charles II monarchy? | Supporter of arts and sciences and more tolerant toward Puritans |
| James II? | Devout Catholic; eventually escaped to France when it became clear that Catholic monarchy would not be popular |
| Mary and William of Orange? | Protestant; brought in by Parliament; |
| Glorious Revolution of 1688? | When William and Mary took the throne with no blood spilled; in 1689, they agreed to respect the Bill of Rights passed by Parliament |
| What did the Bill of Rights of 1689 do? | Parliament had the right to approve all taxes and forbid monarch from suspending the law; limited constitutional government |
| What happened in England in the late 1600's? | New farm tools; more food; more people; towns and cities expanded; factories emerged |
| What are the features of the Augustan age? | 1660-1800; peace after chaos; neoclassism (look at classics and try to imitate; Enlightenment (asked "how" and not "why"); age of reason; age of satire; (Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift); metaphysical poetry |
| See the handouts for Donne, Milton, etc. | 123 |
