England & America --ch18 Flashcards
inherited the throne and united England and Scotland
James I
James and _____ disagreed on“divine right of kings”
Parliament
James I absolute rule/stated the king was above the law
“divine right of kings”
James and _____ disagreed that the king is the head of the church/ wanted to purify the church
Puritans
King James I ordered the translation of the _____ or King James version of the Bible
Authorized
date of king James version bible
1611
date England colonized Jamestown
1607
date England colonized Plymouth
1620
______ refused to give Charles the money he wanted, so he took it from the English people through _____
Parliament
taxes
When Charles dissolved parliament and became the absolute ruler of England
Eleven Years Tyranny
In 1629, Charles dissolved parliament and became the ______ of England
absolute ruler
Date Puritans started Massachusetts Bay Colony
1630
the Parliament that sat in session for 13 years
“Long Parliament”
“Long Parliament” lasted how long
13 years
grievances of Puritans in Parliament for religious reform and limitation of the king’s power
Grand Remonstrance
English Civil War
Roundheads vs. Cavaliers
Parliament’s supporters
Roundheads
king’s supporters
Cavaliers
the leader of Parliament’s armies
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell’s army was known as the ___
“Ironsides”
turning point of the Civil War in favor of the Roundheads (Ironsides won)
Battle of Marston Moor
won Battle of Marston Moor
Ironsides
final major defeat of the Cavaliers
Battle of Naseby
declared King Charles I guilty of treason and had him beheaded
Rump Parliament
England’s new republican government under Cromwell
Commonwealth
form of government by cromwell
republican
Cromwell’s government after he dissolved Parliament; he made himself “Lord Protector”
Protectorate
Cromwell made himself ____
“Lord Protector”
Oliver Cromwell’s weak successor
Richard Cromwell
restored the monarchy in England
Charles II
secret agreement between Charles II and Louis XIV to make England Catholic
Treaty of Dover
leaders of PArliament who opposed Charles II
Whigs
Catholic king after Charles II
James II
overthrew James II and became the protestant King and Queen of England
what’s this called?
William III and Mary II
Glorious Revolution
permanently established English traditional political liberties
English Bill of Rights
the “Glorious Revolution” or the “Bloodless Revolution”
1688
Last Stuart monarch in England
Queen Anne
England and Scotland united to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain
1707
in 1707 ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND united to form what?
United Kingdom of Great Britain
England’s greatest epic
Who wrote it?
Paradise Lost
John Milton
England’s greatest allegory
Who wrote it?
Pilgrim’s Progress
John Bunyan
wrote about the mind, soul, and eternity to express spiritual truth
Metaphysical Poets
lyrical poems about love and pleasures of this world
Cavalier Poets
started the Pietist movement
Philip Spener
German baptists
The Brethren
leader of the Moravians
Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf
headquarters for Moravian missions
Herrnhut
wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards wrote what sermon?
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Best-known evangelist of the Great Awakening
George Whitfield
Went on 7 evangelistic tours total
George Whitfield
George Whitfield preached to over ______ people at one time; a total of over 10 million people in his lifetime
30,000
brought the Great Awakening to England
John Wesley
created the idea of Empiricism
John Locke
experience is the only source of knowledge
Empiricism
created the idea of Skepticism
David Hume
to know truth is impossible and knowledge is uncertain
Skepticism
brother of John Wesley known for writing
Charles Wesley:
George Whitfield and their friend group was called the “_____”
Methodists
Church that the Wesleys founded
Methodist
led the movement in England to end slavery
William Wilberforce
founded the first Sunday School (“Father of the Sunday school Movement”) and started popular education in England.
Robert Raikes
bettered the conditions of the prison system in England
John Howard
“Father of Modern Missions”
William Carey
took his ministry to India
William Carey
missionary to Burma
Adoniram Judson
“Father of American Missions”
Adoniram Judson
wrote “Amazing Grace”
John Newton
“Father of Modern Conservatism”
Edmund Burke
leading authority in British law
Sir William Blackstone
Commentaries on the Laws of England
Sir William Blackstone
signed by Charles I reaffirming the rights of the people
Petition of Rights
sought to make the English church more like the Roman church
William Laud
greatest literary figure of the 18th century
Samuel Johnson
charted the islands of New Zealand, New Guinea, Australia, and the Hawaiian Islands
Captain James Cook
began the Hanoverian Line of English Kings
George I
first true Prime Minister of Britain
Sir Robert Walpole
rebellion that took place during George I’s reign
Jacobite Rebellion
second Hanoverian King; less involved than the first
George II
A second Jacobite Rebellion took place under whose reign?
George II
The Industrial Revolution began under whom?
George II
British fought the French and their North American allies for control of eastern North America
French & Indian War
last of the 13 North American colonies (George II was king)
Georgia
Minister of England who drove the French out of North America
William Pitt the Elder
worked to increase the power of the king of England over the colonies
George III
the real measure of a nation’s wealth is the mount of gold or silver it possess; colonies existed for the good of the mother country
Mercantilism
colonies existed for the good of the mother country
Mercantilism
meeting of the colonies and King George III
Continental Congress
War that took place during King George III’s reign
American War for Independence
most important human statement of political principles in the history of the world
Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
Date of Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
America’s first attempt at a national government
Articles of Confederation
Came after Articles of Confederation
United States Constitution
first president of the United States
George Washington