English History and Renaissance Culture

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  1. Henry VII and Tudor Consolidation
  2. Henry VIII and Religious Reformation
  3. Edward VI and Mary I
  4. Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada
  5. James I and the Pilgrim Fathers
  6. Humanism and the Renaissance
  7. English Renaissance and Political Thought
  8. Science and Elizabethan Worldview
  9. Elizabethan Golden Age and Occult Culture

Key Dates

  1. 1588Philip II of Spain’s Invincible Armada suffered a disastrous defeat in the Channel because agile English ships used rapid attacks to prevent Spanish ships from manoeuvring effectively
  2. 1605Catholic plotters attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot, but the conspiracy was exposed and Guy Fawkes and other conspirators were executed
  3. 1620Puritans known as the Pilgrim Fathers sailed to America on the Mayflower, landed in Massachusetts, and founded a new colony

1. Henry VII and Tudor Consolidation

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1. Which policy helped Henry VII prevent nobles from maintaining private armies after the Wars of the Roses?

2. Which combination best describes Henry VII’s approach to consolidating Tudor rule?

3. What did the Act of Supremacy of 1534 establish about Henry VIII’s religious authority?

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What did Henry VII enforce to unify England after the Wars of the Roses?

Law and order

How did Henry VII prevent nobles from maintaining private armies?

By taxing them

Which groups did Henry VII support to encourage commerce?

Merchants and the gentry

What did the Act of Supremacy of 1534 declare Henry VIII?

Supreme Head of the Church of England

What did the Act of Supremacy of 1534 do to monasteries?

Closed them and transferred their properties to the kingdom

How many times did Henry VIII marry?

Six times

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