Unit 3 Class Flashcards
17th Century English Politics
DROK Kings (Stuarts) vs. Parliament over Magna Carta (1215)
- Ruled that no man was above the law and that Parliament decided law
✧ James 1
- Took over from Elizabeth 1
- 1st Stuart King
- Time period was Tudor-Stuart or Elizabethan Renaissance
- believed in DROK in violation of Magna Carta. “I am God’s lieutenant on Earth”; angers House of Commons & House of Lords
- Leads committee of scholars to translate bible = King James Bible
- wants all to use Book of Common Prayer and be Anglican
Charles 1
- DROK - antagonizes Parliament by disbanding it for 11 years after they passed the “Petition of Right” in 1628 giving them more rights
- tries to force Scots to adopt the Book of Common Prayer and Anglicanism
English Civil War
1639-1648
- Charles 1 (Cavaliers) vs. Parliament (Roundheads) w/ Cromwell’s “New Model Army”
✧ Oliver Cromwell
- Captures Charles 1, who receives a trial, is found guilty and beheaded
- Leader of Parliament
- Pride’s Purge of Parliament - leaves only sycophants and Cromwell’s cronies; “Rump” Parliament
Cromwell’s Commonwealth
- Puritan Revolution with strict moral code
- Invades Ireland and steals their land
✧ Cromwell Irony
Parliament opposes absolutism but Cromwell becomes Lord Protector or Military dictator
✧ The “Ends” of Mercantilist Policy
- favorable balance of trade: you export more in value than you import, thus leaving you with more bullion in the state treasury
- economic self-sufficiency
- bullion stockpiles
- policy of landed aristocratic interests and monarchy, who were the “power brokers” of this era
- to benefit the “mother country”
✧ “Means” of Mercantilism
- protectionist tariffs to discourage imports
- subsidies to infant industries to encourage self sufficiency
- colonies as a source of raw materials
- colonies as a market for the “finished products” from the mother country
- detailed manufacturing codes to ensure high quality products to encourage exports
✧ Examples of Mercantilist Policy
- 1651 Navigation Acts in England insisting that English goods be shipped on English ships, encouraging the creation of a merchant empire
- Colbertism in France (detailed manufacturing codes)
- establishment of colonies in the New World - 13 Colonies broke with Britain because it wanted to trade with others
✧ Richelieu’s Trend - Domestic
- growing power of the monarchial authority, 1624-1642
- system of “intendants” or monarchial bureaucrats carrying out king’s policy at local level (usually from bourgeoisie to weaken aristocracy)
- following Henri IV’s assassination, declining power of aristocrats
- anti-Protestant policies in violation of Edict of Nantes; trend after Henri IV dies
✧ Richelieu’s Foreign Policy
- supported Protestants in the 30 Years War largely in opposition to the Hapsburgs
- expanded colonial outposts in New World and French exploration
- expand France through war
Richelieu’s Economic Policy
Mercantilism
- also known as Protectionism or Colbertism
Mazarin and the Fronde
- “Fronde” was the French Civil Wars in 1648-53; rebellion of French aristocrats against growing monarchial authority
- Cardinal Mazarin became chief architect of French policy following the death of Richelieu in 1642; able to crush the “Fronde”, helping to grow the power of the monarhcy
- trend towards French Absolutism
Louis XIV, “The Sun King”’s Domestic Policy
- systematic spies
- censorship of the press and creation of the “cult of personality”
- system of “intendants” grow
- Versailles “hostage system”
Louis XIV’s Foreign Policy and Wars
- French expansion in colonies and wars against her neighbors in an attempt to expand France “to her natural borders”.
- constant warfare bankrupted France
Louis XIV and Religion
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
- “one king, one law, one faith”
Louis XIV’s Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685
compare to economic effects suffered by the Hapsburgs in Spain because of the Inquisition.
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Louis XIV and Government
patronage system of absolute rule and the Versailles Court
Louis XIV Relationship with Colbert
mercantilism in France