Peasant's Revolt

Question 1

What year did a ship arrive in Dorset from Europe, bringing the Black Death to England?

Answer 1

1348.

Question 2

By what year did the Black Death arrive in Scotland?

Answer 2

1350.

Question 3

How much of the population did the Black Death kill?

Answer 3

A third of the population.

Question 4

Who were most likely to be affected by the plague?

Answer 4

The poor.

Question 5

When was the Statutes of Labourers passed?

Answer 5

1351.

Question 6

Why was the Statutes of Labourers passed?

Answer 6

Peasant’s started demanding higher wages as there were fewer workers after the Black Death. Local lords and even the King started to worry so the Statutes of Labourers was passed.

Question 7

What did the Statutes of Labourers state?

Answer 7

Every man and woman in the realm must work for those who want them, and shall only receive the same wages as before the plague.

Question 8

Did the peasant’s accept the Statutes of Labourers?

Answer 8

No.

Question 9

Between what years did 70% of the people bought before the Justices of the Peace were accused of breaking the Statutes?

Answer 9

1377 and 1379.

Question 10

When was the Peasant’s Revolt?

Answer 10

1381.

Question 11

Why were many peasants in a powerful position after the Black Death?

Answer 11

The Black Death had killed so many workers, and landowners needed workers to bring in the harvests.

Question 12

Who was the king at the time of the Black Death?

Answer 12

Richard II.

Question 13

Why did Richard introduce a poll tax?

Answer 13

To help fund campaigns against the French in the Hundred Years War.

Question 14

How many poll taxes did Richard introduce in total?

Answer 14

3.

Question 15

By 1380, how much did you have to pay for the poll tax?

Answer 15

Every person over the age of 15 had to pay 4 groats per year to the king.

Question 16

How much had people previously (before 1380) have to pay for the poll tax?

Answer 16

Only 1 groat per year.

Question 17

What 3 things did many priests start to preach or argue about in 1380?

Answer 17

-About how the Church had been exploiting the peasants

-Also that the Church should not be charging pardons for sins

-Also that the Church should not have so much property when others were starving.

Question 18

What 2 key people were doing this preaching?

Answer 18

John Wyclif and John Ball.

Question 19

What specific preaching did John Ball say?

Answer 19

‘When Adam delved and eve span, who was there a gentleman?’

Question 20

What were peasant’s angry at, which wasn’t necessarily the king?

Answer 20

The oppressive system they lived under.

Question 21

Who was the tax collector?

Answer 21

John Bampton.

Question 22

When and where did the Peasants refuse to pay and threaten Bampton with his life?

Answer 22

30 May, Fobbing.

Question 23

When did the peasants behead Bampton’s clerks and start setting fire to the houses of Bampton’s supporters?

Answer 23

2 June, Brentwood.

Question 24

When and where did the peasant’s make Wat Tyler their leader/

Answer 24

7 June, Maidstone.

Question 25

When did the peasants free John Ball from Maidstone prison?

Answer 25

7 June.

Question 26

When did the peasants storm Rochester Castle?

Answer 26

7 June.

Question 27

When and where did the king sail to meet the peasants?

Answer 27

12 June, Bishopsgate.

Question 28

What 2 buildings did the peasants burn down?

Answer 28

-Government buildings

-The Savoy Palace of John of Gaunt.

Question 29

When did the peasants burn down the Savoy palace of John of Gaunt?

Answer 29

13 June.

Question 30

Why did the peasants burn down government buildings?

Answer 30

To destroy tax records.

Question 31

When do the peasants kill foreign merchants and supporters of the king?

Answer 31

13 June.

Question 32

When and where does Wat Tyler meet the king, and to discuss what?

Answer 32

14 June, Mile end. Wat Tyler meets the king and outlines the peasants’ demands. The king is also to give a royal pardon to all involved and all villains are to be made freemen.

Question 33

Who do the peasants kill on the 14 June?

Answer 33

The Archbishop of Canterbury.

Question 34

When did the revolt end?

Answer 34

15 June.

Question 35

When and how is Wat Tyler killed?

Answer 35

On the 15th June, while he refused to leave until the king agreed to his demands, of the king’s men stepped forward and killed him.

Question 36

What happened to the rebel leaders once the revolt was over?

Answer 36

They were rounded up and hanged.

Question 37

What happened to John Ball once the revolt was over?

Answer 37

He was hanged and his body cut into pieces. His head was stuck on a spike on London Bridge.

Question 38

Where was Wat Tyler’s head put after the revolt was over?

Answer 38

Next to John Ball’s.

Question 39

What is a short-term impact of the Peasants Revolt?

Answer 39

-Worker’s wages began to rise.

Question 40

What are 3 long-term impacts of the Peasants Revolt?

Answer 40

-The poll tax was never repeated in the Medieval period

-Parliament eventually gave in and stopped trying to control the peasants’ wages

-Gradually peasants became independent and within 100 years the peasants were freemen.

Question 41

Give 2 reasons why the revolt is significant:

Answer 41

It led to a change for the peasants and was the first time ordinary people had started a revolt.

Question 42

Why do some historians believe the revolt was unnecessary?

Answer 42

They suggest that society was already changing and that serfdom was coming to an end.

Question 43

What do socialist historians believe about the revolt?

Answer 43

That it was significant because it was the first working-class rebellion.

Question 44

Other historians believed it marked the beginning of what?

Answer 44

English ideas of freedom.

Question 45

Who were the key priests who started to preach these things?

Answer 45

John Wyclif and John Ball.