Oliver Cromwell Good and Bad

Question 1

Good for people who followed him

Answer 1

Destroyed the power of the king – for which he is sometimes called the ‘father of democracy’.

Question 2

Good for people who followed him

Answer 2

Destroyed the royalist resistance and brought the Civil Wars to an end.

Question 3

Good for people who followed him

Answer 3

Introduced Puritan religion and way of life to Britain

Question 4

Bad

Answer 4

United the country in hatred of rule by the major generals. Britain has since been hostile towards the possibility of a military dictatorship.

Question 5

Bad

Answer 5

Created in Ireland a long-lasting hatred of and resistance to rule from a government in London.

Question 6

Good

Answer 6

Built up the British navy this was the start of Britain’s naval supremacy

Question 7

Good politicly but bad morally

Answer 7

Captured Jamaica from the Spanish and thus began the British Empire

Question 8

Good

Answer 8

Allowed Jewish people to return to England

Question 9

Good

Answer 9

Ended illegal taxes such as ship tax

Question 10

Good

Answer 10

Stopped dubious courts such as the Star Chamber

Question 11

Good

Answer 11

Established rules for parliament to build on in the future

Question 12

Good

Answer 12

Permanently curtailed the power of the monarch in the long term

Question 13

Bad

Answer 13

Was cruel and brutal with opponents still remembered today

Question 14

Bad

Answer 14

Restricted religious freedoms

Question 15

Bad

Answer 15

Disorder as society fragmented into different groups

Question 16

Bad

Answer 16

Entertainments and Festivals such theatre and Christmas were closed for religious respasons