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The Stuarts and Civil War

Crowns, conflict and constitutional second guesses. Twelve questions, with a few convincing wrong turns along the way.

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What did the 1603 Union of the Crowns immediately give England and Scotland?

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1. What did the 1603 Union of the Crowns immediately give England and Scotland?
- A. Shared parliament
- B. Shared legal system
- C. Shared monarch (answer)
- D. Shared national treasury
James VI became James I of England. Separate parliaments and legal systems remained.
2. When did Charles I govern without summoning the English Parliament?
- A. 1629 to 1640 (answer)
- B. 1603 to 1614
- C. 1642 to 1649
- D. 1660 to 1671
Charles's eleven-year Personal Rule ran from 1629 to 1640.
3. What was ship money's stated purpose?
- A. Royal wedding costs
- B. Parish churches
- C. Colonial plantations
- D. Maintaining the navy (answer)
Ship money funded naval defence. Its use during Personal Rule helped provoke opposition.
4. Who was Captain-General of the New Model Army at Naseby in 1645?
- A. Oliver Cromwell
- B. Sir Thomas Fairfax (answer)
- C. Earl of Essex
- D. George Monck
Fairfax commanded the army. Cromwell played a major cavalry role but was not Captain-General.
5. Religious changes imposed in Scotland helped produce which conflicts?
- A. Bishops' Wars (answer)
- B. Dutch Wars
- C. Jacobite risings
- D. War of the Spanish Succession
The Bishops' Wars of 1639 and 1640 arose from resistance to Charles's religious policies.
6. What dominated the second day of the Putney Debates in October 1647?
- A. French succession
- B. Imported tea prices
- C. Who should have voting rights (answer)
- D. Rebuilding St Paul's
Army representatives debated political participation, including whether voting rights should depend on property.
7. Where did Cromwell defeat the Scottish army supporting Charles I in 1648?
- A. Edgehill
- B. Preston (answer)
- C. Marston Moor
- D. Newbury
The Scottish intervention supported Charles. Scotland's role changed during the wars.
8. What happened in December 1648 immediately before Charles I's trial?
- A. Restoration
- B. Union of the Crowns
- C. Great Fire
- D. Army purge of Parliament (answer)
The army removed MPs opposed to its course. Charles was tried and executed the following month.
9. Who received the English Crown jointly in 1689?
- A. William III and Mary II (answer)
- B. James II and Anne
- C. Charles II and Catherine
- D. William III and Anne
William and Mary became joint monarchs. Mary was James II's daughter.
10. When did the Declaration of Rights become statute as the Bill of Rights in 1689?
- A. February
- B. April
- C. December (answer)
- D. August
The Declaration was read in February; it became an Act in December, a separate stage.
11. Which institution was founded by statute in 1694?
- A. Royal Society
- B. Bank of England (answer)
- C. British Museum
- D. National Gallery
The Bank of England was founded in 1694 during William and Mary's reign.
12. What distinction belongs to Anne's refusal of assent to the 1708 Scottish Militia Bill?
- A. Abolished the Scottish army
- B. Dissolved the Union
- C. Introduced ministerial responsibility
- D. Last royal veto of a parliamentary bill (answer)
This remains the last occasion a British monarch withheld royal assent from a parliamentary bill.

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