oliver cromwell

• What is a protectorate?

  The bame given to the rime when england Ireland and scotland did not have a monarch
• What did Cromwell ban due to puritan views?

  Theatre, Christmas and makeup
• When was Cromwell made lord protector?

  1653
• Why was Irish land a valuable commodity?

  70% of land was held by catholics
• How many troops did Cromwell have in Ireland?

  12,000 with siege artillery
• What massacres happened in 1649?

  Drogheda and Wexford
• Impact of Cromwell in Ireland

  41% of population died - 25% from induced famine
• When and why did Cromwell invade Scotland

  September 1650 to strike at support for Charles
• What did cromwell have to create?

  A new form of authority without regality
• What fid republican iconography attempt to do

  Present him as a prophet doing gods work
• Evidence of Cromwell being a hero of liberty

  Ended war with Netherlands and tensions with Portugal

  Allowed all expelled Jews to return

  Navigation act 1651
• What was the Navigation Law of 1651?

  Only British ships can trade with the American colonies
• Evidence of Cromwell being a tyrant

  Cromwell put personal enemies in prison without parliaments permission

  Signed Charles fest warrant

  Slaughtered 5000 Irish in 1649