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23 Cards in this Set
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Which was first to rule England |
The Tudor dynasty |
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Did the tidied share power with parliament? |
No |
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HenryVII |
-crowned after the war of roses -shrewdly maneuvered to disarm his rivals -helped rebuild England's commercial prosperity -encouraged taxes and was careful of government spending -avoided war by using diplomacy and the arrangement of suitable royals marriages to strengthen England's interests abroad |
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Henry VIII |
-began to make England a great naval power -married 6 times -broke from the Catholic Church -seized monastery lands and sold them to wealthy landowners |
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House of Commons |
A person owned land that could be elected to the House of Commons not nobles |
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House of Lords |
Hereditary, nobles, didn't have to be elected by someone else |
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Edward V and Mary I |
Edward was king at 9 until he died. Lady Jane Grey was Edwards cousin and was queen for 9 days until she was executed and Mary was Edwards sister who then was queen |
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What was lost against the war with France? |
Calais |
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After Mary I died the throne went to who? |
Elizabeth I |
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Elizabeth I |
-shrewd highly educated forceful -asserted her will and clashed with parliament -used her authority for the common good of people earned respect - |
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Why didn't Elizabeth marry? |
-foreign prince could endanger England -Local nobility would cause jealousies |
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Why did Elizabeth refuse to give up her powers as monarch |
For the sake of marriage |
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Parliament |
Did not have the power to initiate legislation but could plead urge advise and withold |
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Justices of the peace enforced laws |
-maintained peace -collected taxes -kept the government informed of local problems -this was a key to success for england |
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Statue of apprentices |
-People must live and work where they were born -controlled the movement of labor and fixed wages -regulated apprenticeships |
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The poor laws |
-made local areas responsible for their own homeless and unemployed -included ways to raise money charity and to provide jobs |
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Social and economic policy |
-Elizabeth inherited a monarchy that was badly in debt royal revenues barely covered expenses -Elizabeth spent lavishly to show the power and dignity of her country -in other matters she spent cry very little -to raise money without parliaments help she sold off royal lands offices licenses -she was unable to bring England out of debt when she died England was badly in debt |
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While Elizabeth was queen where did England rely all of its security from? |
He English channel |
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Scotland |
Largely catholic and hostile toward england |
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Ireland |
Mostly under English rule both Protestant and catholic lived there |
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Mary Queen of Scots |
Scotland became Protestants and Mary was forced to abdicate, Mary (tower of London) executed. |
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England conquered the irish |
With Scotland and Ireland allied with England, there was peace in the British isles |
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Dynasty's of England |
The Hapsburgs, Tudors, Stewards |
