Unit 3—Chapters 13 & 14 Flashcards
James I
Rule and relationship with Parliament
First Stuart monarch in England Catholic Also king of Scotland Only called Parliament when he needed money Had big terrifs
Absolute Rule
Ruler believes he’s been chosen by God (Divine Rite of Kings)
Ruler doesn’t consider representative assemblies or Parliaments
James I foreign policy
Made peace treaty with Spain in 1604
Retracts penal laws against catholics
Didn’t help protestants during Thirty Years War
Hampton Court Conference
1604
James I says he’ll ignore all protestants
Charles I’s Extra-parliamentary measures
Did most of his work outside of parliament
Renewed many taxes that had been discontinued long ago
The Petition of Right
1628
Charles asks parliament for money. They say they’ll give it to him if he agrees to set parliament control his income. He agrees, but later realized he didn’t have as much power as he wanted and disbanded Parliament in 1629
Facts about the “Long Parliament”
1640-1660
Consisted of merchants, landlords, Puritans, and conservative Anglicans.
They tell Charles that he has to sign to make England a limited monarchy, so he dissolves parliament.
They don’t dissolve even though he told them to.
English Civil War
*1642-1646/1649 Cavaliers: Monarch's soldiers Roundheads: Parliament's soldiers Oliver Cromwell lead the Roundheads after first half. He taught them to fight guerrilla and they pwn'd. *1649: Charles I executed
England after Oliver Cromwell
The Restoration
They wanted monarchy back
England under Oliver Cromwell
*1649-1660
Republic of the Commonwealth
Puritan Extremist Military Dictatorship
Cromwell disbands parliament in 1653
Treaty of Dover
1670
Between England and France against Netherlands
Charles tells Louis XIV that he’ll openly convert to Catholicism when the time is right. He doesn’t until he’s on his death bed.
The Test Act
1672
Made by Parliament in response to Declaration of Indulgences of 1672
Made everyone deny Transubstantiation if he wanted to gain any sort of official power
16th-17th century Netherlands
Independence from Spain in 1572
Calvinism was official religion. Many Jews. Different religions lived together peacefully
Monarchy, but with strong Parliamentary backing
Republic. Each province had its own power
Dutch economic prosperity
High urban consolidation
Transformed agriculture
Extensive trade and finance
Oversees commercial empire
Dutch economic decline
18th Century
Dutch prevented another Stadtholder from gaining power after William III of Britain died
Unified political leadership vanished
William III of Orange
He allowed Netherlands to become a permanent country in Europe
Two most important models of European political organization
Political Absolutism
Parliamentary Monarchy
Religious Policies of Charles I
Opposition to Presbyterian Scots and English Puritans
Tried to impose a prayer book on the Scots very similar to the Book of the Common Prayer
The Popish Plot
1678
Titus Oats swore that Charles II’s Catholic wife was plotting with Jesuits and Irishmen to kill Charles so James could assume the throne.
Declaration of Indulgences of 1687
Suspended all Catholic penal laws
By James II
Glorious Revolution
*1688
Parliament invited the rulers, William and Mary(English king’s sister), from Netherlands to invade England and rid them of Catholic rule.
The Act of Settlement of 1701
Made house of Hanover the next ruling dynasty in England
George I was first Hanover ruler
50 others were closer in line, but they were all Catholic, so they could’t become English monarch
The Act of Union
1707
Created United Kingdom of England, Scotland, and Wales
During Anne Stuart’s reign
Robert Walpole
First Prime Minister of England
Didn’t try to get to much power; was modest
Cardinal Armand Richelieu
“Heavy handed centralization”
Chief adviser to Louis XIII
Gave a lot of power to the lesser nobility
Louis XIV’s relationship with the French nobility
Made nobility, especially the lesser nobility, feel as if they had power and say in political affairs.
Louix XIV’s reign
1643-1715
Outlived children and grandchildren
Was the longest ruling monarch Europe had seen
Versailles
Hugemongantuan
It consumed over half of France’s treasury every year to maintain.
Louis XIV’s religious acts
Suppressed Jansenists
Hurt Gallican Liberties
Believed in Religious uniformity
Symbolism of Louis XIV
“The Sun King”
No one in Versailles could rise from bed until after the “sun” had.