𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 (𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬)

• Why did Parliament  bring back the  

  monarch?

  Rule by Cromwell was no better than rule by Charles I. When  Cromwell died he left the government to his son Richard. Richard  was also unpopular.
• Why did Parliament  not want a Catholic  monarch?

  Since Henry VIII, England was a Protestant country. Turning back  to Catholicism looked like treachery. Powerful Protestants in  Parliament would lose power.
• What did the bill of rights do?

  Gave Parliament more power over taxes and debates, declared that James II and his sons were no longer monarchs.
• What did the Act of  Settlement do?

  Explicitly said that no Catholic (or anyone married to a Catholic)  could ever become monarch of England.
• What did the Jacobites want?

  To be monarchs of England and Scotland again. As male  descendants of James II they thought they were the rightful heirs.
• What happened in the Boston Tea Party?

  the sons of Liberty boarded a British ship in Bouston Harbour and they the tea into the water
• What were the 1774 Intolerable Acts?

  laws passed by Britain which gave them more power over the state of Massachusetts and reduced the freedoms of its citizens
• When was King Louis executed?

  Louis was executed in January 1793 for betraying the people of France. The National Assembly voted 707-0 to have him killed
• Why did the Haitian Uprising began?

  The Uprising began after the governors of Haiti refused to improve the rights of slaves in Haiti following the French Revolution
• What happened in Boston in 1770?

  A protest broke out against British rule in the colonies- 5 protesters were killed by British soldiers
• Why is Yorktown significant?

  The American army defeated the British to achieve victory in the War of Independence
• Why was the Bastille attacked in July 1789?

  The Bastille was a prison for opponents of King Louis and a symbol of the repression of his rule
• Where is Haiti?

  Haiti is a Caribbean Island and a former French slave colony which became the first Black Liberal Democracy.
• What was the stamp act?

  a law which sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies
• Why did the stamp act anger the colonies?

  the colonists argued that there should be "No Taxation without Representation"
• What happened at the Boston Massacre?


  in 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts, a group of British soldiers shot their muskets into a crowd. Five colonists were killed.
• What was the Tea Act?

  this gave the East India Company a tax break on their tea
• Why did the American colonists throw tea into the Boston Harbor?

  to protest British Parliament's tax on tea.