CASE STUDY - EAWC Causes Flashcards
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
Religion - What did Charles establish?
Give an example of how he did this.
A pro-Catholic Church without changing it from being Protestant.
He removed extreme Protestant archbishops from the House of Lords.
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
Religion - How were Puritan preachers treated?
Poorly
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
Religion - Where was there a high concentration of Puritans?
What does this relate to?
East Anglia
Matthew Hopkins’ father was a Puritan preacher treated badly under Charles.
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?
20%
The New Model Army (Parliamentarian), many from East Anglia.
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) role
b) women
c) drastically
d) traditional
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) women
b) husbands
c) accused
d) witches
e) scared
f) mothers
g) mothers
h) women
i) witches
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
Breakdown in Traditional Authority - who was particularly attacked?
Preachers who had been ‘too Catholic’ or criticised parliament/the Puritan Church.
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?
They returned & found their property had been stolen & were arrested.
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
Breakdown in Traditional Authority - People were ______ and didn’t know how to _______ to changing ________, turning on _________.
a) scared
b) respond
c) structures
d) eachother
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
Changing Legal Structures - What happened to the Assize Court?
It became too dangerous for them to travel as a result of the war.
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.
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.
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
Changing Legal Structures - Without ______ legal structures, witch hunts ________ and it was ______ to get a ________ - people therefore started _______ _______ people.
a) normal
b) intensified
c) easier
d) conviction
e) randomly
f) accusing
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Crop Failure - crop failure began as a result of ____ _______ & ________ _______.
____ land meant heavy _______ flooded ______, which _______ fields, spreading a crop _______ (______).
(2)
a) wet summers & freezing winters
b) flat
c) rainfall
d) rivers
e) flooded
f) disease (ergot)
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Crop Failure - What was the name of the crop disease that began spreading?
Ergot
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Crop Failure - Why was ergot important to the witch hunts?
Killed crops & caused hallucinations.
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Crop Failure - The ______ of wheat ________ - ______ increases by ___%.
a) amount
b) decreased
c) prices
d) 20%
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Crop Failure - What did Puritans believe about the dying crops?
Punishment from God due to someone in the community is sinning. Punishing them themselves will lead to God ending the crop failure.
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Changing Land Use - some ____ gentry/landowners ________ their ____ to make ______ (_______ tenants to make ____ fields that _____ one product - less ________ needed).
a) rich
b) enclosed
c) fields
d) money
e) evicted
f) big
g) farm
h) equipment
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Changing Land Use - Give a specific example of changing land use.
How did this impact the witch hunts that later took place?
Ely, Norfolk; landlord evicted 30 families across 4,000 acres of land.
Some women involved in protests against his actions become suspected witches.
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Impact of the Civil War - inflation ________ as people weren’t _______, ____ failures & increased _____.
EXAMPLE = ______ increased by __% & _____ were the _____.
a) increased
b) farming
c) crop
d) prices
e) livestock
f) 12%
g) wages
h) same
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Impact of the Civil War - What did the Parliamentary side of the war do that worsened the economy in 1643?
Introduced the ‘weekly assessment’ to fund resources in the war.
It was 12x higher than the ship money tax.
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?
1643
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Impact of the Civil War - How were elderly women impacted?
They stopped being supported out of fear of them being witches - they were targeted and killed.
EAST ANGLIA’S HUNT HISTORY
What was notable about East Anglia by 1644?
Held more witchcraft trials then anywhere else in England.
EAST ANGLIA’S HUNT HISTORY
By what year had East Anglia held more witchcraft trials then anywhere else in England?
1644
EAST ANGLIA’S HUNT HISTORY
___ women were _______ in last __ years of the _____, __ in __ being _______.
200 women were arrested in last 20 years of the 1500s, 1 in 6 being executed.
EAST ANGLIA’S HUNT HISTORY
What happened after Charles became King?
It become harder to prosecute witchcraft.
EAST ANGLIA’S HUNT HISTORY
What is the East Anglia Witchcraze arguably a response to?
To the general decline in witch hunting.
What are the 3 main causes of the EAWC to consider?
The English Civil War, The Economic Crisis, East Anglia’s History
What is the criteria to consider when evaluating why the hunts became so widespread?
(4)
Resonates - prolongs hunts
Results in change - increases intensity of hunts
Remarkable - how widespread the impact was
Reveals something about society
