REPUBLIC

Question 1

what and when was the Council of State

Answer 1

49, undertook activities usually done by the King, only 2 army members in it to curb their influence as rump wanted to reduce to reliance on them

Question 2

What was the Leveller challenge of 49

Answer 2

angry at cromwell and ireton for outmanoeuvring them so attack, but cromwell gets the rump to arrest them
small mutineries are crushed

Question 3

threats to the rump domestically

Answer 3

Eikon Basilike claimed to be charles memoirs painted him as martyr
royalist leaders captured
lilburne and levellers captured

Question 4

what and when was the act against against adultury and blasphemy

Answer 4

1650 against groups like ranters

Question 5

what does cromwell do in Drogheda

Answer 5

goes to quell uprisings and civilians are killed with numbers exaggerated

Question 6

what’s happening in scotland at the start of the rump

Answer 6

appalled by executed and cromwell for siding with the Rump over presbyterians

Question 7

when does cromwell beat the scottish at dunbar

Answer 7

1650

Question 8

when does charles 2 try and fail to invade england

Answer 8

1651

Question 9

what was the recusancy act

Answer 9

1650, national church attendance not inforced

Question 10

when does the first dutch war start and why

Answer 10

1652-54
issues over fishing and sea control
but no one really wants the war

Question 11

why does the dutch war anger the army

Answer 11

money into the navy but not to them who are still owed payment

Question 12

what and when was the Navigation act

Answer 12

1651,
All importants to England need to be on english ships (attacking dutch trade)

Question 13

when was the rump dissolved

Answer 13

1653

Question 14

when was the nominated assembly, what did they get done

Answer 14

1653, passed 30 acts and did work on Hales commission (made laws from latin to english)
dissolved themselves after 6 months after radicals began to emerge

Question 15

When did the protectorate come about and what did it include

Answer 15

1653, lord protector a council and state and a parliament voted in with reformed franchise

Question 16

what was the instrument of government, who made it

Answer 16

the new constitution , lambert

Question 17

how many ordinances were passed between 1653-1654

Answer 17

83

Question 18

Religion passed in 1654

Answer 18

Commitee of Triers
Committee of Ejectors

Question 19

When and what was the naylor case

Answer 19

1656, re-enacts christ in bristol, MPs want him executed by Cromwell says punishment is okay

Question 20

How many quakers in 1650

Answer 20

50,000

Question 21

what happened in the first protectorate parliament 1654-65

Answer 21

attack on the Instrument of government being written by lambert
100 MPs refuse to sign a recognition of it and are barred
dissolved after 5 lunar months

Question 22

What and when was the Biddles case

Answer 22

1654, he denied the trinity and divinity of jesus and the MPs imprison him showing power over cromwell

Question 23

What does cromwell get up to on his 1655 solo power trip

Answer 23

Imprisons Cony and his whole legal team without trial
Suppression of all non government newsheets

Question 24

Who, what why and issues with the major generals

Answer 24

1655-7, lambert , interfered with local government and seen as military rule

Question 25

What does cromwell get up to on his 1655 solo power trip

Answer 25

Imprisons Cony and his whole legal team without trial Suppression of all non government newsheets

Question 26

examples of major generals

Answer 26

Berry=focused on his own ideas of reformation Whalley= huge improvement of the poor

Question 27

What happened in the the second protectorate parliament 1656-58

Answer 27

Parliament end decimation tax which was funding major generals so they go Humble petition and advice

Question 28

What was the Humble Petition and Advice and when

Answer 28

1657, asks for cromwell to have the crown and ‘upper chamber’ like privy council army hate this rejects the crown but accepts it

Question 29

Issues caused by the Humble Petition

Answer 29

-allies moved to privy council so loss of allies -republicans allowed back to parliament -parliament dissolved in chaos after the republicans attack that constitution

Question 30

when does cromwell die and who replaces him

Answer 30

58, his son richard who resigns in 59

Question 31

What happens when the Rump comes back

Answer 31

Lambert suggests new petition and Republican Haselrig says no way and they’re bickering but then the Booths uprising happens

Question 32

What and when was the Booths uprising

Answer 32

59, royalist uprising against the army, quelled

Question 33

what does the rump do after booths rising

Answer 33

fight, removed by lambert, reinstated by army regiments who didn’t agree with lambert, dissolves itself to call free elections