AP EURO UNIT 3

Flashcards for Unit 3 in AP Euro...

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The Interregnum (1649-1660)
-Oliver Cromwell is the leader and England will be ruled w/o a king.
-England was a military state ruled by the army of Cromwell in reality.
The Common Wealth
-A republic w/ a constitution that abolishes the House of Lords and of course the monarchs.
1563 Cromwell dissolved...
-The rump parliament and establishes a Protectorate.
-Cromwell became the Lord Protector.
-Military Dictatorship
1649 Cromwell invades...
-Ireland and crushes the Irish who were in rebellion. very brutal.
a. 2/3 of Catholic lands were given to the English in Ireland
b. He hated the Irish because they were Catholic
The Puritan controlled government will regulate the moral life of English demanding the strict moral codes be followed.
-no golf
-no theater
-no dancing, drinking, and singing
-strict observance of the sabboth
1661 Clarendon Code
-was created to drive out all Puritans out of public, political, and religious life
The Test Act
-excluded those unwilling to recieve the sacrament of the church of England from voting, holding office, preaching, teaching, or attending universities (Puritans and Catholics)
Charles II needed $$$ so he ...
-made a secret deal with Louis XIV
a. Charles received 3 mil. a year in exchange for relaxing the restrictions of Catholic
b. England agrees to fight the Dutch w/ France
The Pope-ish plot
-a story created by Tidus Oates who said that the pope had an agreement w/ James who was the bro of Charles II
-James was to kill Charles II
-35 innocent people will be executed
Charles II will dissolve the Parliament when...
-It passes a law denying royal succession to a Catholic
King James II
-Catholic
-grants religious freedom to all
-two daughters to protestant wife: Mary and Ann
-son to catholic wife
-Wanted to return England to an Absolute monarch and Catholicism
- reissued the Declaration of Indulgences: granted freedom of worship to Catholic
William III
- invited by Parliament to assume the thrown w/ his wife (Mary)
- leader of the dutch/Netherlands
- agreed if he could have his troops w/ him and the support of the people of England
1689 Bill of Rights
-makes England a Constitutional monarchy
- laws can only be made w/ consent of Parliament
- members of Parliament have right to free speech
- taxation is illegal w/o parliaments approval
- no excessive ball or cruel and unusual punishment
-accused is guaranteed trial by jury and due process of law
-3 elections to parliament, cannot be dissolved
1701 Act of Settlement
- declared that if King William or his sister in law Ann died w/o children the crown would go to the Hanover elector (German)
- First 2 Hanover Kings of England did not speak English and let the decision making process be done by the cabinet
1707 Act of Union
-united England and Scotland into Great Brittian