Revision for the Year 8 Fact Exam. 1. What do the following words mean? Revolution A big change in who rules Civil War A war inside one country Parliament.

Revision for the Year 8 Fact Exam

1. What do the following words mean?

• Revolution• A big change in who rules• Civil War• A war inside one country• Parliament• Where laws are made by MPs• Divine right of kings• God had given the power to the king• Republic• A country with no king• Restoration• When the royals were brought back

1. What do the following words mean?

• Monarch

• A king or queen

• Plague

• A horrid disease

• Taxes

• Money collected for the king

• Lord Protector

• What Cromwell called himself instead of king

• Act of Succession

• William + Mary banned any future Catholic from the throne

2. The Civil War• 3 reasons it broke out• Charles had a French Catholic wife

Henrietta Maria• Charles shut parliament for 11 years• Charles taxed the people heavily (Ship

Money)• Charles made Catholic changes to the

Church• Charles marched into parliament to

arrest 5 MPs

2. The Civil War

• Who were the 2 sides?

• Cavaliers OR royalists

• Roundheads OR parliamentarians

• Types of soldiers

• Musketeers

• Pikemen

• Dragoons

2. The Civil War

• What happened to the king?

• Captured by the Scots and handed over to Cromwell

• Executed for planning a second war

3. Cromwell

• How did life change?

• Banned …

• football on Sunday,

• drinking,

• dancing around the maypole,

• gambling,

• feasting at Christmas

3. Cromwell

• What religion did his supporters belong to?

• Protestants OR Puritans

3. Cromwell

• What links him to St Ives?

• Lived here for 5 years as a farmer

The Stuarts• Who became king after

Cromwell & what was his nickname?

• Charles II

• The Merry Monarch

• Who became the next king and what was his religion?

• Charles’s brother James II. Catholic.

The Plague

• What caused it?

• Infected fleas spread across London on black rats

• What happened?

• Cats and dogs killed. City gates locked. The ill locked in their homes. 100,000 died.

• Why did it end?

• The Great Fire killed the Black rats

The Great Fire

• Why so destructive?• Hot summer dried the wooden houses• Houses packed tight on the streets• Strong easterly wind swept the flames

across the city• Fire engines were useless• People didn’t pull down homes quick enough• Mayor panicked + didn’t take charge

The Restoration

• How had the monarch’s power changed by 1689?

• William + Mary had been invited by parliament to take the throne from James.

• So, parliament had slightly more power.

What’s an anachronism?• Something put in the wrong time zone

• E.g. Oliver Cromwell defeated the cavaliers at the battle of Naseby because of his expert use of machine guns.