Power and the people part 1

Question 1

Causes of Magna Carta

Answer 1

1) Scutage tax - money for war
2) John lost crown Jewell’s
3) Excommunicated
4) Lost lot of land in Normandy

Question 2

Events of Magna carta

Answer 2

1) June 1215 Magna Carta was signed
2) Magna Carta contained 63 clauses including:
-No Scutage tax
-No arrests without proper trial
-A group of 25 barons should monitor the king

Question 3

Short term significance of Magna Carta

Answer 3

1) Changed nothing for ordinary people, only barons
2) Church could make own decisions
3) Civil war broke out when John refused the clauses and terms

Question 4

Long term significance of Magna carta

Answer 4

1) As years passed it applied to more people are more people gained freedom
2) Introduced the idea that the king must follow some laws
3) First step of democracy in britain

Question 5

Causes of Simon De Montfort and Henry III

Answer 5

1) Henry III was always short of money
2) Henry was threatened excommunication by the pope
3) Simon De Montfort sided with the barons and was put on trial many times by Henry

Question 6

Causes of Simon De Montfort and Henry III

Answer 6

1) Henry III was always short of money
2) Henry was threatened excommunication by the pope
3) Simon De Montfort sided with the barons and was put on trial many times by Henry

Question 7

Events of Simon De Montfort

Answer 7

1) Provisions of Oxford issued in 1258
2) May 1264 , Simon De Montfort captured Henry in the battle of Lewes and imprisoned him
3)4th August 1265, a royalist army of around 18000 defeated Simon De Montfort in the battle of Evesham

Question 8

Effects of the provision of Oxford?

Answer 8

1) All foreign members of the royal household will be banished
2) Castles would be held by Englishmen
3) A county will have a sherif to administer taxes

Question 9

Short term significance of Simon de Montfort?

Answer 9

1) Englands first parliament ( Great council)
2) Barons switched to Henry’s side and killed De Montfort

Question 10

Long term significance of Simon De Montfort?

Answer 10

1) De Montfort is known as a martyr of freedom
2) Became a symbol of democracy and helped develop the glorious revolution in 1689

Question 11

Causes of peasants revolt

Answer 11

1) Gap between rich and poor increased due to Black Death and harvests falling by 50%
2) Statute of labourers of 1351 stated that everyone under 60 must work
3) King required more money from taxes as wars were going bad
4) Poll tax

Question 12

Peasants revolt events

Answer 12

1) John bampton went to collect unpaid poll taxes but the village refused to pay
2) Resistance when tax collectors tried to make arrests
3) Armed men set off to London led by Wat Tyler killing royal officials
4) Richard II went to Mile End to talk to the rebels where he was presented a list of demands
5) Next day Wat Tyler was attacked and died

Question 13

Short term significance of the peasants revolt

Answer 13

1) Was the first time commons had rebelled against royal authority
2) The rebellion failed, king went back on his word and leaders were hanged

Question 14

Long term significance of the peasants revolt

Answer 14

1) Poll tax was never repeated
2) Peasants wages began to rise
3) Some peasants were able to buy land
4) Within 100 years the peasants became freemen