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Who was Lord Protector
Cromwell
100
What was it called when Cromwell and the NMA dismissed all members of Parliament who refused to sign the King's Death Warrant?
Pride's Purge
100
Where was the Third Civil War fought in the 1650s?
Scotland
100
How was the most powerful social group in English society in the C16th and C17th?
The aristrocracy
100
Who died shortly after drinking a cannibal cure
Charles II
200
What was the name of Cromwell's forces before the New Model Army
The Eastern Association
200
What was the Parliament of Churchmen established by Cromwell in 1653 called?
Nominated Assembly or Assembly of Saints
200
Where was the capital of England during the Interregnum?
London
200
Someone who is called Sir is a member of which social group?
The gentry
200
What were those who had signed the King's death warrant called by royalists?
Regicides
300
Who was put in charge of England by Cromwell in 1655?
The Major-Generals of the New Model Army
300
At what battle did Cromwell notoriously murder enemy soldiers after they surrendered?
Drogheda
300
Where did Charles II issue his document promising to not persecute Parliamentarians if he was restored to Kingship?
Breda
300
Name a group who believed in women's equality to men in the C17th?
The Levellers, the Ranters or the Quakers
300
Who defeated the English navy during the Interregnum?
The Dutch
400
Who agitated against Cromwell in the New Model Army in the 1650s?
The Ranters
400
When did Cromwell become Lord Protector?
1653
400
Where was the last big battle fought which decided the first civil war
Naseby
400
When could a women own property in her own name?
If she was a widow
400
How many mistresses did Charles II take?
14 major ones
500
Name the leader of the Levellers
John Lillebourne
500
Why were Leveller women tarred and feather/publicly mocked in 1651?
For presenting a political petition/expressing political voice
500
Name one place where Matthew Hopkins conducted a witch hunt?
The Eastern counties of Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk, and occasionally in Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire
500
What were wealthy farmers of common stock called?
Yeomen
500
What were Parliamentarians known as in the Parliaments after the Interregnum?
The Whigs