England in the XVII century - 2024

In the XVII century, industry was the most important economic activity and the most usual occupation of Englishmen.

In the XVII century, enclosures were introduced to increase the productivity of the land. This practice drove many smaller tenants from the land.

The manufacture of woolen cloth, which had begun much earlier, remained the principal English industry throughout the XVII century.

According to some authors, the Industrial Revolution began in the XVII because during this period mills and steam engines proliferated.

In the XVII century, the majority of English were yeomen earning their living from trade.

The new gentry, which had already been reinforced in the XVI century with the dissolution of monasteries, was further powerfully strengthened in this century as a result of changes in land ownership after the Civil War.

According to Maurice Ashley, in the struggle between Parliament and Crown, it was the King that threw out the challenge and demanded that Parliament should submit to a modification of its traditional rights.

Which of the following does not represent a parliamentary demand?

The Stuarts were absolute monarchs who supported the political dogma of divine hereditary right and rejected any checks on their power.

Early liberalism was for toleration in religion, for constitutional government in the sphere of politics, for state intervention in the economic realm, and for the supremacy of the law in the legal field.

Early liberalism valued commerce and industry, favoured the rising middle class rather than the monarchy and aristocracy, and had immense respect for natural rights.

At the Hampton Court Conference of 1604, a meeting presided over by James I and attended by the bishops and the Puritan leaders, the Puritans set forth their demands for reform of the Church of England.

James I agreed to most of the demands presented by the Puritans at the Hampton Court Conference.

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 fueled anti-Catholic sentiments in England.

James I's strong support for the divine right of kings and reluctance to accept Parliament's say in financial matters were some of the issues that brought him into conflict with Parliament.