Popular political pamphlets in seventeenth-century England

12 questions

1. Match up the key words with their correct definitions.
2. Who was crowned king during the Restoration?
3. Identify a financial cause of the English Civil War.
4. What does propaganda tend to do?
5. Write the missing word. When historians use sources, they must think carefully about their _______ as well as what the sources actually say.
6. What do pamphlets from the years 1640-60 tell us about England at the time?
7. Match up each of the key words with its correct definition.
8. Write the missing word. The 11-year gap between the reigns of Charles I and Charles II is known as the _______.
9. Write the missing word. The author, date, and purpose of a source are all part of its _______.
10. Why did the Parliamentarians create pamphlets during the Civil War claiming that many leading Royalists were Catholics?
11. Starting with the earliest, sort these events into chronological order.
12. What can historians learn from Anna Trapnel’s pamphlet "Cry of a Stone"?

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