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The English Reformation
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A 16th-century (1500s) movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church

the Reformation
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This German monk started the Protestant Reformation

Martin Luther
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This 1440 invention made it easier for the Protestant Reformation to spread

The Printing Press

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King of England, split England from the Catholic Church and formed the English Church

Henry VIII

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The Catholic Church sold these to raise money and rid you of your sins

Indulgences

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Someone who protested against the Catholic Church and broke away into their own denomination

Protestant

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English Professor, preached against Catholic doctrines and said that the Bible (not the Pope) was the ultimate authority, translated the Bible into an English vernacular, declared a heretic after death

John Wycliffe

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On October 31, 1517, these were posted on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, detailing the corruption within the Roman Catholic Church

95 Theses

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Henry VIII desperately wanted what?

a Son

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Martin Luther formed the first Protestant denomination called

Lutherans

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A process by which the Catholic Church attempted to make internal change after receiving backlash from the people

The Counter Reformation

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Czech priest, criticized the Roman Catholic Church for selling indulgences, declared a heretic and burned at the stake

John Hus

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Charles V summoned Martin Luther to trial in an event called the

Diet of Worms

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Henry VIII's first daughter, restored Catholicism in England and burned Protestants at the stake

Mary I

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Charles V declared Martin Luther an outlaw and heretic in a decree called

The Edict of Worms

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This council met regularly for 20 years and defined Catholic beliefs/set rules for bishops and priests

The Council of Trent

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This Pope refused to grant Henry VIII a divorce, thus kicking the King (and country) out of the Roman Catholic Church

Pope Leo X

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In 1543, Henry VIII passes this act that declares him the supreme head of the Church of England

The Act of Supremacy

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Henry VIII's second daughter, established the Anglican Church, ushered in England's "Golden Age"

Elizabeth I

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French Protestants are also known as...

Huguenots

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The Catholic church taught that Christians could gain more of God’s grace through a series of spiritual rituals called

The Holy Sacraments

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King and Queen of Spain, ordered their Muslim and Jewish people to convert to Catholicism or leave

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
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In 1543, Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus. What do we call the men who make up this society?

Jesuits

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Why did the Pope refuse to grant Henry VIII a divorce?

Political Reasons (He didn't want to make the Holy Roman Empire or Spain mad as both had a connection to Catherine of Aragon)

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King of Spain, tried to impose Catholicism on his people which started the Thirty Years War

Bohemia Ferdinand II

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