I. Answer the following questions:

Crown and Parliament

1. When did the 1^st signs of trouble between Crown and Parliament come?

2. What were they connected with?

3. Characterize James I as a ruler.

4. Speak on Charles’s attitude to Parliament.

5. What can you tell about the Petition of Right?

Religious disagreement

1. What were Charles’s religious views?

2. What mistakes had he done during his reign?

3. What led to a rebel of Scottish army in spring 1638?

Civil war

1. What had happened in 1641?

2. When did the Civil war start?

3. How did the war end?

CHAPTER 14 REPUBLICAN AND RESTORATION BRITAIN

Active vocabulary

1. restoration

2. treason

3. to groan

4. dissolution

5. “leveler(s)’

6. “whig(s)”

7. “tory (ies)”

8. to give in

9. nonconformist

10. consent of the people

11. coup d’etat

12. surrender

I. Answer the following questions:

Republican Britain

1. What was a new “model” army and who had created it?

2. Why did Puritans want to get rid of the king?

3. What did they do with the king? What was people’s reaction to this?

4. For how long Britain was a Republic?

5. Why were Cromwell’s hopes destroyed and when?

6. What was the main goal of the “Levellers”?

7. When did Oliver Cromwell become “Lord Protector”? What kind of ruler was he?

8. What was the indicator of the end of the republic?

9. Describe the beginning of Charles II reign.

Catholicism, the Crown and the new constitutional monarchy

1. What was the reason of appearing political parties in Britain?

2. What parties of that time do you know? What was their function?

3. What was James II religious and political campaign?

4. How did William of Orange become a king of England?

5. What had Algernon Sidney and John Locke argued about?

6. Comment on the Glorious Revolution.

7. What did the Act of Settlement proclaim?

Scotland and Ireland

1. When and how were England and Scotland united?

2. What had happened to Wales?

Foreign relations

1. Speak on the topic.

CHAPTER 15 LIFE AND THOUGHT

Active vocabulary

1. Baptist

2. Quaker

3. Huguenot

4. to escape from persecution

5. to gain European fame

6. to gear wheels and lathes

7. eventually

8. circulation of blood

9. gravity

10. cereal

11. waterway

12. traffic jam

13. iron-tyred wheels

14. descendant

15. aristocrats

16. welfare

17. sinful

I. Answer the following questions:

The revolution in thought

1. What were the main reasons for the start of revolution in the Stuart age?

2. How did the translation of the Bible influence on people’s religious thinking?

3. Speak about the most important Nnconformist sects.

4. Who do we call the “Pilgrim Fathers” and how are they connected with America?

5. Comment on the new discoveries during this period (Francis Bacon, William Harvey, Sir Isaac Newton).

6. Who was the greatest British architect of the time? What is he known for?

Life and work

1. What changes had occurred in the second half of the 17^th c.?

2. Speak on the trade in Britain.

3. When did the shops appear?

4. Dwell on the development of the main cities in Britain?

5. Where did the first aristocrats appear and what was their function?

Family life

1. What was the reason for the smaller number of births?

2. How did the power of monarchy influence o the family life?

3. What was the function of a head of the family?