Context to the Era: Reformation and Its Consequences - Issues in England Flashcards
Name 2 ways Henry VIII used Protestantism
To get divorced and to gain new land
Why did Henry VIII want to gain more land for England?
To make England powerful again after the War of the Roses
Why did Henry VIII want to get divorced the first time?
Because he had fallen in love with Anne Boleyn
Who did Henry VIII cut ties with in order to divorce Catherine of Aragon?
Cut ties with Rome
What Church did Henry VIII form which would allow him to get divorced from Catherine of Aragon?
The Church of England
What did Henry VIII do with all of the land that the Catholic Church in England?
He sold it off
What fraction of all land in England did the Catholic Church previously own?
1/3 of all land
When was the Anglican Doctrine made?
1535
What did the 1535 Anglican Doctrine do?
Gave more land and power to the King
Who was the ruling monarch after King Henry VIII died?
Edward VI
Was England Catholic or Protestant under Edward VI?
Protestant
Who became the ruling monarch in England in 1553? What sect of Christianity did they put the nation under?
Mary I put England into Catholicism
Who became the ruling monarch in England in 1558? What sect of Christianity did they put the nation under?
Elizabeth I put England into Protestantarianism
What political issue arose for England with Spain in the 1580s? Why?
Spain tried to fight England to take back Catholicism
