England: absolutism and the bourgeois revolution
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Split the causes of the English revolution into economic and political.
Economic: growth of capitalist relations; political: conflict of the king with Parliament and the Puritans.
2
Write positive and negative aspects of Cromwell’s activity.
Positive: Parliament’s victory, the republic; negative: conquest of Ireland and Scotland, the protectorate.
3
Make a short chronology for 1603, 1640, 1649, 1688.
1603 — the Stuarts; 1640 — Long Parliament; 1649 — Republic; 1688 — Glorious Revolution.
4
How does a constitutional monarchy differ from absolutism? 2 sentences.
In it the monarch’s power is limited by a constitution and parliament; in absolutism there is no limit.