A global power Flashcards
What was the Declaration of Rights read at the coronation of William and Mary?
Confirmed that the king would no longer be able to raise taxes or administer justice without agreement from Parliament.
What did the The Bill of Rights of 1689 establish?
- Confirmed the rights of Parliament and the limits of the king’s power.
- Parliament took control of who could be monarch
- A new Parliament had to be elected at least every three years (later seven years, now five years)
- Every year the monarch had to ask Parliament to renew funding for the army and the navy.
Who were the two main groups in Parliament at the beginning of party politics?
Whigs and Tories
(The modern Conservative Party is still sometimes referred to as the Tories.) This was the beginning of party politics.
From when were newspapers allowed to operate without a government license?
From 1695, newspapers were allowed to operate without a government licence.
Increasing numbers of newspapers began to be published.
What is the Constitutional Monarchy?
The laws passed after the Glorious Revolution are the beginning of what is called ‘constitutional monarchy’.
The monarch remained very important but was no longer able to insist on particular policies or actions if Parliament did not agree.
Why was the shift of power to Parliament after the Glorious Revolution still not considered a democracy in the modern sense?
The number of people who had the right to vote for members of Parliament was still very small.
Only men who owned property of a certain value were able to vote. No women at all had the vote.
Some constituencies were limited to a single wealthy family.
Who were ‘pocket boroughs’ and who were ‘rotten boroughs’?
Some constituencies were controlled by a single wealthy family and were called ‘pocket boroughs’.
Other constituencies had hardly any voters and were called ‘rotten boroughs’
When did the first Jews come to Britain since the Middle Ages settle, and where did they settle?
The first Jews to come to Britain since the Middle Ages settled in London in 1656.
Who came to Britain from France between 1680 and 1720?
Between 1680 and 1720 many refugees called Huguenots came from France.
They were Protestants and had been persecuted for their religion. Many were educated and skilled and worked as scientists, in banking, or in weaving or other crafts.
What was the Act of Union and why was it created?
William and Mary’s successor, Queen Anne, had no surviving children. This created uncertainty over the succession in England, Wales and Ireland and in Scotland.
The Act of Union, known as the Treaty of Union in Scotland, was therefore agreed in 1707, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Though Scotland was no longer an independent country following the Act of Union, what pieces of its infrastructure did it maintain?
Legal and education systems and the Presbyterian Church
Who succeeded Queen Anne when she died in 1714?
When Queen Anne died in 1714, Parliament chose a German, George I, to be the next king, because he was Anne’s nearest Protestant relative.
An attempt by Scottish Jacobites to put James II’s son on the throne instead was quickly defeated.
What led to the formation of the important position of Prime Minister?
George I did not speak very good English and this increased his need to rely on his ministers.
The most important minister in Parliament became known as the Prime Minister.
Who was the first to be called the Prime minister and how long did he hold that position?
The first man to be called this was Sir Robert Walpole, who was Prime Minister from 1721 to 1742.
Who was Charles Edward Stuart (also called Bonnie Prince Charlie)?
Charles Edward Stuart was the grandson of James II and there was an attempt to put Stuart king back on the throne in place of George I’s son, George II
