Starter quiz
- Which keyword describes representatives from across the country who advise the king, approve taxes and make laws?
- 'Parliament' ✓
- Which keyword describes the highest in rank or authority?
- 'supreme' ✓
- Put the 'Thomases' in order of when they helped Henry VIII with his 'Great Matter'.
- 1⇔Thomas Wolsey
- 2⇔Sir Thomas More
- 3⇔Thomas Cromwell
- Why was Thomas Cromwell so important to Henry VIII in securing his divorce?
- He was very good at manipulating Parliament into voting for acts Henry wanted. ✓
- He solved many of the legal cases that had piled up under Wolsey.
- He led the charge against the Catholic Church and pushed through the annulment. ✓
- He used theological ideas and Scripture to argue for the annulment.
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- By mid-1532, what had the goal of the Reformation Parliament become?
- to introduce acts that pressured the pope to grant the annulment
- to remove the power of the pope and the Church and transfer it to Thomas More
- to remove the power of the pope and the Church and transfer it to the king ✓
- to introduce acts that pressured Thomas Cromwell to grant the annulment
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- Who did the Act of Succession in March 1534 declare illegitimate?
- Edward
- Mary ✓
- Elizabeth
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Exit quiz
- Which keyword describes a building occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows?
- 'monastery' ✓
- Complete the sentence: During the English Reformation, Henry kept some ideas of Catholicism, like ______ during the Eucharist.
- consubstantiation
- transubstantiation ✓
- symbolic Eucharist
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- Complete the sentence: Henry VIII's son, Edward VI, made England more ______ compared to his father.
- 'Protestant' ✓
- During the Lincolnshire Rising, how many protestors occupied Lincoln Cathedral demanding that they be allowed to remain Catholic?
- 5000
- 50 000
- 40 000 ✓
- 4000
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- Put the uprisings in response to Henry VIII's religious reforms in chronological order.
- 1⇔the Lincolnshire Rising
- 2⇔the Pilgrimage of Grace
- 3⇔the Cumberland Rising
- Which religion did England follow from July 1553?
- Protestant
- Catholic ✓
- Islam
- Buddhism
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Key learning points
- Henry kept some ideas of Catholicism, like transubstantiation, and executed people who deviated from it.
- The closure of monasteries in England was known as the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
- The Dissolution of Monasteries and religious changes led to a rebellion in 1536 known as the 'Pilgrimage of Grace'.
- Henry's son, Edward VI, made England more Protestant and introduced the Book of Common Prayer.
- Henry's daughter, Mary I, was Catholic and restored Catholicism in England.
Common misconception
People decide for themselves what religious beliefs they hold.
For much of English history, people had to believe what the monarch told them to believe, else they would be killed. This insistence upon belief became more relaxed only in the relatively recent past.
Keywords
Monastery - a building occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows
Dissolution - the act or process of bringing to an end an official organisation
Uprising - an act of resistance or rebellion
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