Social and intellectual challenge (Red booklet)

Cards (48)

  • population in 1680
    5million
  • Impact of population on London
    7% of entire population
  • Growth of population cause 

    a shortage of wheat
  • There was and increased number of (type of people) 

    Immigrants
  • When did inflation cause small land owners to struggle to invest
    1650
  • What are overseers
    Chief local officials who collected poor rates
    every parish had one
    decided who received relief
  • What percentage of the population were poor
    1/3
  • What are the 2 types of poor
    Settled poor
    vagrant poor
  • Was vagrants a criminal act

    Yes
  • Percentage of the population were vagrants
    0.5%
  • Were the Elizabethan poor laws still used

    Yes. 1601
  • What did the Elizabethan poor laws do

    Basic treatment of poor until 1662
    only for deserving poor
  • Stats in 1650 state relief stood at 

    £188,000 compared to £30,000 in 1614
  • Charles 1st Policy of thorough aim to do

    Make local government more efficient and enhancing poor relief
  • Poor relief act also called the settlement act in 1662 aim to do.

    Poor could only get relief in their home parish and if they wanted to move had to get a settlement certificate first only if their home parish agreed to pay for their transport home
  • How long did a poor person have to live in another parish to recover poor relief 

    40days
  • The act of settlement benefited?
    Landowners and restricted freedom of the poor
  • Society change 1625-88 what may it include
    Nobility
    poor
    women
    intellectual change
  • Society change Nobility 1625-1688?

    Inflation caused decline in significance
    econmic power decline “aristocratic lifestyle”
    short term damage from civil war
    supporters of royalist had land confiscated
  • When was the House of Lords dissolved
    March 1649-1661
  • Noble families stats 1625-1688?

    104 families -157
  • Society continuity nobility 1625-1688?

    Maintained political power only nobility could sit in House of Lords
    gentry gained political power
  • Society change women 1625-1688?

    Civil war caused women to work in agriculture, run homes, fight in sieges and fight (even tho not allowed)
    quakers>equality>sufferage>Fox 1676
  • Society continuity women 1625-1688?

    no economic power based on status
    literacy and education (but lots of people couldn’t read or write)
    cant vote
    even tho lots of change it reverts back when Charles 2nd.
  • When was the interregnum?

    1649-1660
  • Thomas hobbes views?
    Royalist
    people should have individual liberties but only if a strong rule is in charge
    conflict is a state of nature
  • Causes of social change?

    Decline of the aristocracy
    urbanisation
    price of inflaftion
    population growth
    radical ideas
    increase in international trade
  • Positives of the poor laws?
    Poor were:
    allowed chance to revive support
    get address
    prove where they live (settlement certificate)
  • Negatives of the poor laws?
    Landowners:
    didn’t want to pay
    could send poor away
    poor could only get settlement certificate if they could live in a parish for 40days unsupported with home parish agreeing to pay for travel home if they can’t
  • Who were the levellers?
    issued pamphlets petitioning and holding meetings to promote their ideas (relatively peaceful)
    house of lords should be abolished
    new constitution
    people should be equal before the law and religious freedom
  • Successes of the levellers?
    strong force could confront parliament
    long term impact their ideas influenced later democratic movements (constitutional monarchy)
  • Limitations of the levelers?

    Disagreement between leaders the group lacked a cohesive message
    short term not very influential
    their leaders imprisoned in 1649
  • Who were the diggers?
    Beloved ownership of land should be based on man made laws rather than kings
    belived:
    common ownership of the means of production
    compulsory education for boys and girls
    abolition of monarchy + House of Lords
  • Successes of diggers?
    Message relevant to rural community’s
  • Failures of diggers?
    Message was too radical for their er. Each community was taken to Court and disbanded
    not very influential only a minor group lacked support and finance
  • Quackery’s and seekers who were they?
    Seekers:
    purely religious threatened social hierarchy
    quakers:
    led by George fox
    35,000 in 1660s
  • Successes of quackery and seekers?
    Grew to 35,000 quackery in 1660s
    recieved harsh prosecution but survived
    fox launched in 1654 to spread radical ideas Were such a threat specific acts were passed against them due to their support
  • Who were the ranters?
    Small group preachers in london 1650
    took part in criminal acts (sexual behaviour, “drunken orgies”)
    leaders imprisoned in 1651
    believed incapable of sin ignore man made codes of social morality
  • Failures of ranters?
    Banned by the blasphemy act of 1650
    no big threat
    laid the way for prosecution acts on other radical groups
  • Hobbes significance in Britain?

    He inspired absolute monarchy in his book 1651 book of leviathan