AP Euro Quiz: Charles II
Restoration Period
-Charles II - Restoration of: monarchy Church of England Parliament
Royal Society
-Charles II helps form the Royal society, a key scientific society
Post Cromwell
-Cromwell and the Puritans were unpopular -England wants to restore monarchy -Puritans are so unpopular they decline dramatically
Parliament and James II
-Parliament wants James II out and his protestant daughter Mary to take over -yet James Ii is feeble and Parliament says we can wait until he dies -but James two marries a second wife and has a son who will be Catholic -Parliament asks mary and husand William of Orange to take over England
Other aspects of the Restoration
-Puritans excluded from many things -some worried he is too pro french and pro Catholic
Glorious Revolution
-William and Mary agree to take over the throne -attacks England and James II flees without bloodshed -bloodless revolutioj -Huge political turning point
James II
-brother of Charles II -Catholic -there is a rebellion after he is crowned but he puts it down
Charles II
-son of Charles I, Anglican -has Catholic sympathies, marries French Catholic -Restoration period -Merry Monarch: wants ppl to have a good time, he wants to have a good time -wants people to forget the Puritans
Merry monarch
Charles II
Declaration of Indulgences
Charles II passed: give toleration to Catholics
Louis 14th and Charles II
Louis bribes Charles to become a Catholic -came close to accepting it but doesn't
Clarendon Code
Parliament passed: gives power to Anglicans
Test Act
Parliament passes: must be Anglican to have most government jobs
William and Mary Constitutional monarchy
a constitutional Monarchy 1) No divine right 2) Parliament has power (but only upperclass males can vote) 3) Parliament can raise taxes
Great Fire of 1666
burns much of the area near the docks of London kills many rats that have the Prague
Christopher Wren
helps rebuild London after the Great fire eg. St Pauls Church (not as fancy as Catholic churches)
Plague of 1665
last major Plague in England
Whigs
political party, people in parliament who tend to be against the King (some former Puritans)
Charles as King
relatively popular not much killing stability
Tories
supporter of the King: political party