Starter quiz
- Match up the key words with their correct definitions.
- Restoration⇔the return of monarchy to England ✓
- republic⇔a country without a monarch ✓
- regicide⇔act of killing a monarch ✓
- Who was crowned king during the Restoration?
- Charles I
- Charles II ✓
- Oliver Cromwell
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- Identify a financial cause of the English Civil War.
- Charles I approved a new Book of Common Prayer.
- Charles I refused to let Parliament approve his advisors.
- Charles I made more people pay taxes like Ship Money. ✓
- Charles married a Catholic Queen, Henrietta Maria.
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- What does propaganda tend to do?
- Exaggerate information ✓
- Provide factual statistics
- Provide a range of different opinions
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- Write the missing word. When historians use sources, they must think carefully about their _______ as well as what the sources actually say.
- 'provenance' ✓
- What do pamphlets from the years 1640-60 tell us about England at the time?
- Most people were happy with their rulers.
- There was lots of agreement about how the country should be run.
- There were lots of different ideas about how to run the country. ✓
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Exit quiz
- Match up each of the key words with its correct definition.
- purge⇔getting rid of something you disagree with ✓
- Puritan⇔person with very strict Protestant beliefs ✓
- propaganda⇔information, often false, used to change how others think ✓
- regicide⇔an act of killing a monarch ✓
- sect⇔group with a set of, often extreme, religious beliefs ✓
- Write the missing word. The 11-year gap between the reigns of Charles I and Charles II is known as the _______.
- 'Interregnum' ✓
- Write the missing word. The author, date, and purpose of a source are all part of its _______.
- 'provenance' ✓
- Why did the Parliamentarians create pamphlets during the Civil War claiming that many leading Royalists were Catholics?
- They had clear proof that this was true.
- They wanted to make people switch support to themselves. ✓
- They wanted to provide people with entertaining reading.
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- Starting with the earliest, sort these events into chronological order.
- 1⇔Charles I reintroduces some Catholic practices
- 2⇔First Civil War breaks out
- 3⇔Second Civil War breaks out
- 4⇔Regicide
- 5⇔Cromwell dismisses the Rump Parliament
- 6⇔Protectorate set up
- 7⇔Restoration of Charles II
- What can historians learn from Anna Trapnel’s pamphlet "Cry of a Stone"?
- Cromwell and the Protectorate were popular.
- Cromwell and the Protectorate were unpopular. ✓
- King Charles I’s reign was popular.
- King Charles I’s reign was unpopular.
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Key learning points
- Pamphlets represent an important source for historians studying early modern England.
- Pamphlets were used as a form of propaganda during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- Historians can read these pamphlets carefully to understand the culture of seventeenth century England.
Common misconception
That all contemporary sources can be accepted based solely on the value of their content.
Historians must consider how the provenance of a source may have affected the way it discusses and portrays a historical issue.
Keywords
Provenance - the background of a source is known as its provenance. This includes who, why, and when it was written
Purpose - the reason why a source was made is known as its purpose
Propaganda - propaganda is information, often false, which is published by a person or group to make others agree with them
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