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CASE STUDY - EAWC Causes Flashcards

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Religion - What did Charles establish?
Give an example of how he did this.

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A pro-Catholic Church without changing it from being Protestant.

He removed extreme Protestant archbishops from the House of Lords.

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Religion - How were Puritan preachers treated?

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Poorly

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Religion - Where was there a high concentration of Puritans?
What does this relate to?

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East Anglia

Matthew Hopkins’ father was a Puritan preacher treated badly under Charles.

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Breakdown in Traditional Authority - How many men left the area to fight in the Civil War?
What did many of these men join?

A

20%

The New Model Army (Parliamentarian), many from East Anglia.

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Breakdown in Traditional Authority - the lack of men in society changed the ____ of _______. Men _______ it was changing too ________ and they weren’t fulfilling their _________ role.

A

a) role
b) women
c) drastically
d) traditional

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Breakdown in Traditional Authority - _______ accused of killing ______ etc were also _______ of being _______.

People were _______ of bad ______ - all women are _______. Bad _______ = bad ______ = ______.

A

a) women
b) husbands
c) accused
d) witches

e) scared
f) mothers
g) mothers
h) women
i) witches

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Breakdown in Traditional Authority - who was particularly attacked?

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Preachers who had been ‘too Catholic’ or criticised parliament/the Puritan Church.

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Breakdown in Traditional Authority - The role of the Gentry collapsed when many left to fight in the war.
What did this lead to?

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They returned & found their property had been stolen & were arrested.

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Breakdown in Traditional Authority - People were ______ and didn’t know how to _______ to changing ________, turning on _________.

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a) scared
b) respond
c) structures
d) eachother

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Changing Legal Structures - What happened to the Assize Court?

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It became too dangerous for them to travel as a result of the war.

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Changing Legal Structures - It became too dangerous for the Assize Court to travel as a result of the war.
What did they do instead?
Give an example of this.

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Brought in others to act as a judge.

Sir Richard Rich at Essex assize court. Magistrates took advantage of how impressionable he was & he sentenced 19 women to hang in 1 trial.

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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Changing Legal Structures - Without ______ legal structures, witch hunts ________ and it was ______ to get a ________ - people therefore started _______ _______ people.

A

a) normal
b) intensified
c) easier
d) conviction
e) randomly
f) accusing

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ECONOMIC CRISIS

Crop Failure - crop failure began as a result of ____ _______ & ________ _______.
____ land meant heavy _______ flooded ______, which _______ fields, spreading a crop _______ (______).
(2)

A

a) wet summers & freezing winters
b) flat
c) rainfall
d) rivers
e) flooded
f) disease (ergot)

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ECONOMIC CRISIS

Crop Failure - What was the name of the crop disease that began spreading?

A

Ergot

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ECONOMIC CRISIS

Crop Failure - Why was ergot important to the witch hunts?

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Killed crops & caused hallucinations.

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ECONOMIC CRISIS

Crop Failure - The ______ of wheat ________ - ______ increases by ___%.

A

a) amount
b) decreased
c) prices
d) 20%

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ECONOMIC CRISIS

Crop Failure - What did Puritans believe about the dying crops?

A

Punishment from God due to someone in the community is sinning. Punishing them themselves will lead to God ending the crop failure.

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ECONOMIC CRISIS

Changing Land Use - some ____ gentry/landowners ________ their ____ to make ______ (_______ tenants to make ____ fields that _____ one product - less ________ needed).

A

a) rich
b) enclosed
c) fields
d) money
e) evicted
f) big
g) farm
h) equipment

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ECONOMIC CRISIS

Changing Land Use - Give a specific example of changing land use.
How did this impact the witch hunts that later took place?

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Ely, Norfolk; landlord evicted 30 families across 4,000 acres of land.

Some women involved in protests against his actions become suspected witches.

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ECONOMIC CRISIS

Impact of the Civil War - inflation ________ as people weren’t _______, ____ failures & increased _____.
EXAMPLE = ______ increased by __% & _____ were the _____.

A

a) increased
b) farming
c) crop
d) prices
e) livestock
f) 12%
g) wages
h) same

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ECONOMIC CRISIS

Impact of the Civil War - What did the Parliamentary side of the war do that worsened the economy in 1643?

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Introduced the ‘weekly assessment’ to fund resources in the war.
It was 12x higher than the ship money tax.

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ECONOMIC CRISIS

Impact of the Civil War - When did the Parliamentary side of the war introduce the ‘weekly assessment’ to fund resources in the war?

A

1643

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ECONOMIC CRISIS

Impact of the Civil War - How were elderly women impacted?

A

They stopped being supported out of fear of them being witches - they were targeted and killed.

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EAST ANGLIA’S HUNT HISTORY

What was notable about East Anglia by 1644?

A

Held more witchcraft trials then anywhere else in England.

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EAST ANGLIA’S HUNT HISTORY

By what year had East Anglia held more witchcraft trials then anywhere else in England?

A

1644

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EAST ANGLIA’S HUNT HISTORY

___ women were _______ in last __ years of the _____, __ in __ being _______.

A

200 women were arrested in last 20 years of the 1500s, 1 in 6 being executed.

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EAST ANGLIA’S HUNT HISTORY

What happened after Charles became King?

A

It become harder to prosecute witchcraft.

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EAST ANGLIA’S HUNT HISTORY

What is the East Anglia Witchcraze arguably a response to?

A

To the general decline in witch hunting.

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What are the 3 main causes of the EAWC to consider?

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The English Civil War, The Economic Crisis, East Anglia’s History

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What is the criteria to consider when evaluating why the hunts became so widespread?

(4)

A

Resonates - prolongs hunts
Results in change - increases intensity of hunts
Remarkable - how widespread the impact was
Reveals something about society

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