Midterm

Question 1

1649

Answer 1

Charles I is executed.

Found guilty of high treason and executed

Question 2

1660

Answer 2

The Restoration

Charles II brings fashion, politics, etc. from France. Poets and artists come back to the court.

Question 3

1666

Answer 3

Great fire of London, last year of the plague

London is rebuilt in a Neo-Classical style.

Question 4

1688

Answer 4

Glorious Revolution

William III and Mary II

Question 5

Names:

Oliver Cromwell

Answer 5

Signed King Charles I’s death warrant.

Question 6

Names:

Charles I

Answer 6

King. Beheaded to destroy monarchy.

Question 7

Names:

Charles II

Answer 7

The Restoration began with his return. Brought back the Monarchy to England.
Restored Protestantism.

Question 8

Names:

James II

Answer 8

Succeeded Charles, but was Catholic.

Question 9

Names:

William & Mary

Answer 9

Mary was the Protestant daughter of Catholic James, her husband William was a duke. He took England by force, and the people accepted because they did not want a Catholic dynasty.

Question 10

Names:

Locke

Answer 10

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Question 11

Names:

Thomas Hobbe

Answer 11

A distrust of dogma allowed fresh thinking. Hobbes wrote Leviathan, denying divine basis for kings, and said matter in motion controlled the universe. We need kings because man is restless and their desire for power would lead to civil chaos

Question 12

Hx:

Bubonic Plague

Answer 12

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Question 13

Hx:

Fire of London

Answer 13

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Question 14

Hx. Popish Plot

Answer 14

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Question 15

Hx:

Commonwealth Interregnum

Answer 15

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Question 16

Hx:

Restoration

Answer 16

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Question 17

Hx:

Glorious Revolution

Answer 17

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Question 18

Authors:

Dryden

Answer 18

Parents sided with Parliament, yet he was not raised a strict Puritan.

Wrote on the Fortunate Fall. “annus mirabilis”
the same year of the fire, and considered God’s wrath.

Question 19

Authors:

Pepys

Answer 19

“Diary”