1649-1660

Question 1

In J____ 1649 the Rump Parliament abolished the m____ and House of L____.

Answer 1

January 1649 & monarchy & House of Lords.

Question 2

Which mutiny occurred in A____ 1649?

Answer 2

April 1649 & Burford Mutiny.

Question 3

C____’s campaigns in I____ in 1649 included the D____ and W____ massacres.

Answer 3

Cromwell & Ireland & Drogheda & Wexford.

Question 4

At the battles of D____ (1650) and W____ (1651) C____ defeated Charles II’s forces.

Answer 4

Dunbar & Worcester & Cromwell.

Question 5

The T____ A____ (1650) ended compulsory c____ attendance.

Answer 5

Toleration Act & church.

Question 6

The H____ C____ proposed simplifications to the legal system but it was never i____.

Answer 6

Hale Commission & implemented.

Question 7

Why did C____ dissolve the Rump in 1653?

Answer 7

Delayed elections & feared anti-army MPs.

Question 8

C____ became Lord P____ in D____ 1653.

Answer 8

Cromwell & Protector & December.

Question 9

Members of Parliament under the Protectorate had to be property owners with at least £____ in property.

Answer 9

£200.

Question 10

The D____ T____ was a 10% levy on royalists’ estates to fund M____-G____.

Answer 10

Decimation Tax & Major-Generals.

Question 11

What did the H____ P____ of A____ (1657) offer C____?

Answer 11

Humble Petition of Advice’s & The unofficial Crown& Cromwell.

Question 12

R____ C____ was forced to resign as Lord Protector in A____ 1659.

Answer 12

Richard Cromwell & April.

Question 13

When the Rump was restored in M____ 1659

Answer 13

it failed to control the a____ or stabilize finances.

Question 14

In D____ 1659 G____ M____ dissolved the Rump Parliament.

Answer 14

December 1659 & General Monck.

Question 15

The C____ P____ of 1660 called for free e____ and negotiated C____ II’s return.

Answer 15

Convention Parliament & elections & Charles II.

Question 16

The D____ of B____ (1660) promised amnesty

Answer 16

r____ tolerance

Question 17

When did C____ II return to L____?

Answer 17

Charles II & London & 29 May 1660.

Question 18

Who was the leader of the L____?

Answer 18

John Lilburne & Levellers.

Question 19

What was the Levellers’ key demand?

Answer 19

Universal male suffrage & legal equality & abolition of House of Lords.

Question 20

The L____ were crushed after the 1649 m____.

Answer 20

Levellers & mutinies.

Question 21

Who was the leader of the D____ (True Levellers)?

Answer 21

Gerrard Winstanley & Diggers.

Question 22

The D____ demanded the abolition of private land ownership and c____ farming.

Answer 22

Diggers & communal.

Question 23

The D____ were driven off by landowners and disbanded by ____.

Answer 23

Diggers & 1650.

Question 24

S____ believed in seeking God through inner spirit rather than church hierarchy.

Answer 24

Seekers.

Question 25

The R____ rejected moral codes and encouraged behaviors like d____ and promiscuity.

Answer 25

Ranters & drunkenness.

Question 26

Why were the R____ persecuted in 1651?

Answer 26

Accused of orgies and violence (likely exaggerated).

Question 27

G____ F__ and J____ N____ were the main leaders of the Q____.

Answer 27

George Fox & James Nayler & Quakers.

Question 28

The Q____ rejected social h____

Answer 28

such as refusing to bow or remove hats.

Question 29

By 1660

Answer 29

the Q____ had grown to 50

Question 30

F____ M____ believed Christ’s return was imminent to rule for ____ years.

Answer 30

Fifth Monarchists & 1

Question 31

The O____ of A____ (1643) forced Catholics to deny their beliefs or lose l____.

Answer 31

Oath of Abjuration & land.

Question 32

Catholics who were caught worshipping in the 1650s faced a £____ fine.

Answer 32

£100.

Question 33

How many Catholics in L____ refused the O____ of A____ in 1655?

Answer 33

992 & Oath of Abjuration & Lancashire.

Question 34

C____ was lenient towards Catholics privately such as freeing Catholic l____.

Answer 34

Cromwell & lands.

Question 35

The I____ massacres in 1649 targeted s____ not civillians

Answer 35

Irish & soldiers.

Question 36

Irish Catholics lost l____ to pay for soldiers’ wages during the 1640s and 50s.

Answer 36

Land.