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What are the Causes of Magna Carta?

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  • Religion-king doesn’t follow rules of church, not religious
  • War w/ France-ongoing, very high taxes, John kept money for himself
  • Taxes-SCUTAGE(new tax)-knights & barons use instead of fighting king
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What are the Events of the Magna Carta?

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Battle with France and King John - English land in France sinks in

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What are the Consequences of Magna Carta?

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  • ST:everyone suspect to law, power or king subject to law - law only changed through due process
  • Rule of Law - foundation store of modern liberal democracy
  • LT:protected right of nobility
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What are the Dominant Themes of Magna Carta?

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  • War with France
  • Religion - King John not religious
  • Role of individual - King John
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What are the Causes of Simon de Montfort?

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  • Expectation to limit kings power with law
  • Sign Magna Carta because of barons but Henry 3rd didn’t stick to it
  • He lost war with France-in debt, lost land
  • He used French officials in government
  • Didn’t apply war fairly
  • Favourites got treatment
  • Using sherifs to impose king policy but not law
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What are the Events of Simon de Montfort?

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  • Simon won battle of Lewes in May 1264 with Henry

* Henry won battle of Evesham in August 1265

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What are the Consequences of Simon de Montfort

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  • Sign provision of Oxford
  • Set of demands by barons to hold Henry 3rd account - but he broke them again so battle between Simon and henry broke out, Simon won
  • Establishment of parliament(bishops) by 1265 - idea that parliament can make laws but not king, power gone from king to government
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What are the Causes of Peasants Revolt?

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  • Increase in poll tax(arbitory tax) because expensive war with France, everyone pay same amount
  • Black death - economic recession
  • Crop failure - bad harvest, couldn’t afford to buy, starvation
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What are the Events in Peasants Revolt?

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  • Marched on Oldgate, 12000 rebels
  • Preaching at Black Heath
  • Watt Tyler killed by Lord Mayor of London
  • 7000 rebels killed
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What are the Consequences of the Peasants Revolt?

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  • ST:demands not met, vulnerability of government
  • LT:end of fudal system, 50 years later(1450) villains were freed, further protests gained inspiration by this
  • Fudal system ended because money shifted from Barons to people
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What are the Dominant Themes of Peasants Revolt?

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  • Economic-inflation
  • Role of individual-Watt Tyler, John Bail
  • War with France
  • Criticism of government
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What are the Causes of the Pilgrimage of Grace?

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  • Religion-N of England mainly catholic, return country to how it was before
  • War-increase taxes due to expensive war
  • Money-People can’t pay taxes, cost of living rises
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What are the Events of Pilgrimage of Grace?

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  • Marched to prevent dissolution of monasteries & expansion of the Protestant church
  • Robert Aske led march
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What are the Consequences of the Pilgrimage of Grace?

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  • Failure
  • Henry emerged stronger, more in control than before
  • Accelerate the changes that were opposed
  • All monasteries closed & more changes made to religious services
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What are the Causes of the English Civil War?

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  • Charles 1st charges ship tax to all regions of UK when not in war
  • Religion-suspicion try convert country to Catholicism because wife is catholic, gave catholic prayer book to Protestant country (Scotland) so they rebelled so need to raise tax revenue to crush rebellion
  • Politics-11 years without parliament, perception that Charles 1st had too much power
  • Arrogant which annoyed politicians & land owners
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What are the Events of the English Civil war?

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  • Parliament attempted to rule without king in 1650-53
  • 1653-Cromwell shut it down by marching into parliament
  • 1653-59-Cromwell = virtual dictator - Puritan dictatorship
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What are the Consequences of the English Civil War?

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  • Trial Charles 1-try him for high treason, acting in own interest and not for country or people waging war against parliament - guilty
  • Emergence of groups (levellers, diggers)
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What are the Causes of the American Revolution?

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  • 7 year war w/ France-British troops sent-tax exposed(stamp tax), British believed pay cost of tax
  • Religious divide & conflict in Britain-weak, Britain very divided
  • Government-tories, wigs
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What are the Events in American Revolution?

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  • John Adams-1735 to 1826- helped craft American constitution-strongly anti slavery, commited republican
  • Thomas Paine-published ‘conmen sense’- 1776-argued case of American Consitution
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WhT are the Consequences of American Revolution?

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  • 1st time colony overthrows European rule-people considering shifting power from monarchy to government
  • Declaration of independence
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What are the Causes of Extending the Franchise (group of people who have right to vote)?

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  • Open ballad-disaster
  • Mp’s not paid-only rich people could be them
  • Voters-Male, 25+, own property
  • Rotten borough-tiny constitutes
  • Votes were rare
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What were the Events of Extending the Franchise?

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  • Chartists-organised protests & participated in by-elections, organised big petitions to parliament receiving 6 million signatures
  • Peterloo-peaceful protest against corn laws, Manchester local government scared by 200,000 people turning up so arrested speaker Henry Hunt and 700 people injured from government going through crowd
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What were the Consequences of Extending the Franchise?

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  • Secret ballad
  • More people allowed to vote
  • Illegal for bribery & corruption
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What were the Causes of Trade Unions?

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Many workers came together to protect their wages and status - used force and put pressure on employers

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What were the Events of Trade Unions?

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  • 1699-Newcastle Keelman came together-give themselves more power to negotiate with employers
  • 1820s to 30s- union begun- grand national consolidated trade unions
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What were the Consequences of Trade Unions?

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  • Helped develop idea of worker solidarity
  • Successful for couple months
  • Failed In 1834- turn to political action and the Chartists
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What were Woman’s rights?

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Representation to vote, social economic inequality (unequal pay)

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What were Labour rights?

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Rights to be payed relative to amount of work being done (not exploited) - to form workers union to strike for industrial action

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What were Minority Rights?

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Rights according to your race & ethnicity- not equal to jobs & wages - police brutality - poor quality housing (informal segregation, separated)

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What were the Events for the Minority Rights?

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  • 1948-windrush migration (Jamaican migrants)
  • 1962-commonwealth immigration act
  • 1964-openly racist conservative
  • 1967-national front formed
  • 1981/1985-Brixton riots (economic depression)
  • 2000-recreation act
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What are the Events for Labour rights?

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  • 1920-power act, could ban strike
  • 1926-general strike
  • 1927-Trade dispirit act
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What are the Events for Woman’s rights?

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  • 1903-Pankhursts founded WSPU-violent
  • 1913-Emily Davison ran in front of kings horse
  • 1918-woman 30+ given right to vote
  • 1923-Equal divorce
  • 1928-21+ can vote
  • 1930-18+ can vote
  • 1967-abortion act
  • 1968-on strike at Fords Dagenham factory
  • 1974-birth control introduced
  • 1975-illegal to discriminate against woman on pay
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Why did the King depend on the Barons?

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  • King chief supporters
  • Helped king keep personal control by the knights getting peasants to work for them without pay for 3/4 days a week in exchange for land they farmed but not owned
  • Provide King with political support
  • Provide military service
  • Grant land to each knight in exchange knights fight for baron and protect castles, etc

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