Chapter 12

Question 1

Who are the levellers

Answer 1

A London based pressure group that sought political, economic and social reform

Question 2

Name 3 ways Levellers would publicise their ideas

Answer 2

• Newspapers
• Petitions
• Pamphlets
• Processions

Question 3

Briefly explain how the Levellers were able to influence the army

Answer 3

Denounced high rank officails in the NMA by telling low rank officals that they’d be sold short in the settlements made by the higher rank officers

Question 4

What were the Putney Debates

Answer 4

Discussions on how England should be run, with Levellers wanting a more democratic system. there was no agreement at the end

Question 5

What was the ‘first agreement of people’? and name 1 thing it called for

Answer 5

a political manifesto produced by the Levellers, calling for;
- Parliament should be elected biennially
- A written constitution to limit the powers of the monarch and the aristocrat
- Parliament should have one chamber

Question 6

Who were the Diggers

Answer 6

A sub group of Levellers who believed in the common ownership of land, and equality

Question 7

How were Diggers repressed

Answer 7

• Lack of support, especially form land owners