June 7 (Off-week)
Readings/homework:
Crossroads (*NEW) Text (see MOODLE for PDF)
- Ch.1 – Modern Age – by Monday, June 7
- Cause & Effect Diagram (#2, p.12) upload to TEAMS by Tuesday, June 8
- Ch.2 – English Civil War – by Tuesday, June 8
- Ch.3 – Revolution in France – by Friday, June 11
*Legacies of Colonialism Assignment due week of June 7
The Fight for Democracy & the English Civil War: A Background to Canada’s model of Govt
- How did the geography of Britain contribute to the conditions that would lead to change?
- role of bays and harbours?
- lowlands vs highlands?
- What was English society like in the 17th Century?
- social hierarchy
- economic activities
- conclusions from Table 2-2? Then vs. Now?
- religion
- Protestantism (Anglican Church)
- Puritanism (Calvinists)
- suspicion of women, witches, and original sin
- Parliament vs The Divine Right of Kings
- Magna Carta & establishment of Parliament
- James VI (Scotland) –> James I (England) & absolute monarchy
- Charles I
- grievances with the people
- Short Parliament
- Long Parliament & the Grand Remonstrance
- Civil War
- Cavaliers vs local militia
- The New Model Army & Oliver Cromwell, the Roundheads
- Puritans vs Presbyterians
- role of churches
- role/return of Charles I
- Rump Parliament
- Arguments at Trial
- Republican Rule under Cromwell
- Blue Laws
- The Restoration and Constitutional Monarchy
- Charles II
- Tories vs Whigs
- Test Act
- The Glorious Revolution and the end to Divine Right of Kings
- Janes II
- William of Orange and the Bill of Rights
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