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The English Civil War: what can pamphlets tell us about 17th century politics?
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Match up the key words with their correct definitions.
Restoration
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the return of monarchy to England ✓
republic
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a country without a monarch ✓
regicide
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act of killing a monarch ✓
Who was crowned king during the Restoration?
Charles I
Charles II ✓
Oliver Cromwell
Identify a financial cause of the English Civil War.
Charles I approved a new Book of Common Prayer.
Charles I refused to let Parliament approve his advisors.
Charles I made more people pay taxes like Ship Money. ✓
Charles married a Catholic Queen, Henrietta Maria.
What does propaganda tend to do?
Exaggerate information ✓
Provide factual statistics
Provide a range of different opinions
Write the missing word. When historians use sources, they must think carefully about their _______ as well as what the sources actually say.
'provenance' ✓
What do pamphlets from the years 1640-60 tell us about England at the time?
Most people were happy with their rulers.
There was lots of agreement about how the country should be run.
There were lots of different ideas about how to run the country. ✓
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