1. Revision Let’s organise our time!
AS America
AS Tudors
American Republic
HVII: Government
Northern & Southern States
HVII: Foreign Policy
Legacy of the Past
HVII: Society and Economy
Mexican War
HVII: Religion
1850 Compromise
HVII: Key Individuals
Abolitionists
HVII: Power of the Monarchy
Reactions to Abolitionists
HVIII: Government
Bleeding Kansas
HVIII: Foreign Policy
Rise of the Republicans
HVIII: Society and Economy
Hardening of Positions
HVIII: Religion
Secession
HVIII: Key Individuals
HVIII: Power of the Monarchy
We have 10 weeks until Easter
You are going to block out two hour worth of time per week, to spend time revising AS content.
You can either block out two one hour sessions, or smaller sessions depending what you prefer.
In support from now on, we will spend 10 minutes recalling Tudor content, and 10 minutes America.

2. FLIP LEARNING The following tasks are due in today: TASK:
You have been given a table of when Elizabeth’s Parliament was called, and reasons why it was called/what was discussed. It is currently chronological… TASK: Create a mind map that divided the Parliamentary sessions into themes
Hint: Consider religion, finance, foreign policy, rebellion
The following tasks are due in today:

3. D.I.R.T – Parliament Mind Map
Religion
Finance
Jan-May 1559 (Settlement)
Apr-May 1569 (Tightening of treason laws against Catholics)
Jan-Mar (Tighten anti-Catholic laws)
Feb-Apr 1593 (Legislation against non-attendees)
Jan-April 1563 (Elizabeth wanted money)
Sept Jan 1567 (Elizabeth wanted money)
Apr-May 1569 (Northern Rebellion)
Feb-Mar 1576 (Subsidy)
Jan-Mar 1581 (Subsidy)
Feb-Mar 1589 (Money for war against Spain)
Oct Feb 1598 (short of cash soc/eco crisis)
Oct-Dec 1601 (still short of cash)
Foreign Policy
Rebellion/Security
Oct 1586-Mar 1587 (William of Orange)
Feb-Mar 1589 (War against Spain)
May-Jun 1571 (Ridolfi plot)
Oct 1586-Mar 1587 (Babington Plot/MQoS)
TASK 1: In a green pen, add anything you have missed
TASK 2: Draw links between the different themes, how do they overlap?
CHALLENGE: How far does the Elizabethan Parliaments suggest the role of Parliament had changed from granting the Monarch monetary funds?

4. Elizabeth and Parliament
KNOW
The issues Parliament faced during Elizabeth’s reign
EXPLAIN
Whether the power of Parliament increased in this period
EVALUATE
Whether Elizabeth was able to control her Parliaments.
What we need to cover
Ministers / Privy Council
Finance
Court
Parliament
How effectively did the Tudors restore and develop the powers of the monarchy?
In what ways and how effectively was England governed during this period?

5. Elizabeth and Parliament: Interpretations
TASK: You have 15 minutes to read the section ‘How have the view of historians changed on Elizabeth’s Parliaments? in the Parliament handout you have just been given, and record detail on the three different interpretations on this topic.
J.Lingard
A.F.Pollard and J.E.Neale
G.R.Elton and M.A.R.Graves
KNOW
The issues Parliament faced during Elizabeth’s reign
EXPLAIN
Whether the power of Parliament increased in this period
EVALUATE
Whether Elizabeth was able to control her Parliaments.

6. Emphasis on the despotism (power) of the Tudor Monarchs
J.Lingard
Emphasis on the despotism (power) of the Tudor Monarchs
Parliament played a little part in the centralisation of government under HVIII
Elizabeth continued using Parliament to rubber-stamp changes that were executive decisions
Parliament was more important in the Middle ages.
Parliament challenges royal prerogative under the Stuarts
Tudor period was an interruption in the long term process of parliamentary revolution
A.F.Pollard and J.E.Neale
Parliament didn’t develop in the Middle Ages
Under the Tudors it gradually evolved
Parliament reaches maturity under Elizabeth
Parliament became more self assertive, and willing to challenge
The core of resistance was the ‘Puritan Choir’ in the House of Commons. They were a consistent opposition to Elizabeth.
She had to accept a more radically Protestant settlement than she wanted , criticised her failure to marry, pressed for the execution of MQoS.
Leadership was provided by Peter Wentworth.
Civil War can be traced back to this period.
G.R.Elton and M.A.R.Graves
Far too much has been read into the Puritan Choir
It was much looser than Neale has suggested
Opposition was more likely to have been stirred up by the Queen’s Council, who would use MP’s to stubbornness
It is wrong to put Tudor Parliament into a long narrative that leads to the English Civil War
We should not be looking for conflict between Elizabeth and her Parliament because the two cannot be clearly separated
KNOW
The issues Parliament faced during Elizabeth’s reign
EXPLAIN
Whether the power of Parliament increased in this period
EVALUATE
Whether Elizabeth was able to control her Parliaments.

7. Parliament: Had the power of Parliament changed before Elizabeth took over?
Using the second paragraph on p.26, summarise the four changes seen in the period between Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
Parliaments prestige had increased since 1520’s (HVIII, power emphasised on Parliament at all stages of constitutional change)
There was a decrease in the power of the monarchy after the death of HVIII (Mid-Tudor period)
Religious swings in the Mid-Tudor period had been accomplished through Parliament
Size of the House of Commons was increasing with (400 in 1559 to 462 during Elizabeth’s reign)
KNOW
The issues Parliament faced during Elizabeth’s reign
EXPLAIN
Whether the power of Parliament increased in this period
EVALUATE
Whether Elizabeth was able to control her Parliaments.

8. Parliament: Did the power of Parliament change during Elizabeth’s reign?
TASK: Use your own knowledge and pp to bullet point evidence that supports that Parliament saw either a change in its power, or continuity in its power
Change
Continuity
KNOW
The issues Parliament faced during Elizabeth’s reign
EXPLAIN
Whether the power of Parliament increased in this period
EVALUATE
Whether Elizabeth was able to control her Parliaments.

9. Parliament: Did the power of Parliament change during Elizabeth’s reign?
TASK: Use pp to find evidence that supports that Parliament saw either a change in it’s power, or continuity in it’s power
Increase: Neale’s argument (Elizabeth’s settlement was more protestant than she wanted)
Increase: House of Commons took it upon itself to initiate business (succession/small pox)
Increase: Bishops in the House of Lords opposition to the religious settlement
Decrease: sessions were not taken up with constitutional issues (had been the case with HVIII)
Change
Still called/dissolved by monarch
Absenteeism remained an issue despite issues to solve (Privy Council, bills)
Opposition did not grow, it was disproportionate because of absenteeism
Records/procedures/privileges were refined to facilitate the transaction of monotonous legislative business, not to strengthen Common’s in it’s confrontations
House of Lords was still more efficient that the House of Commons – and this led to continuity in the Commons (rely on Lords for favour)
House of Lords saw little change after the early years (26 Bishops and lay peers). 1/3 relied on the queen for their titles directly.
Continuity
KNOW
The issues Parliament faced during Elizabeth’s reign
EXPLAIN
Whether the power of Parliament increased in this period
EVALUATE
Whether Elizabeth was able to control her Parliaments.

10. ‘Elizabeth was never able to control her Parliaments’
‘Elizabeth was never able to control her Parliaments’. Assess the validity of this view
DEFINE
Parliament
Control
CRITERIA
What would you expect to see if Elizabeth was never able to control her Parliaments?
JUDGEMENT
*Leave for now – we will come back to this once we have looked at the different paragraphs*
KNOW
The issues Parliament faced during Elizabeth’s reign
EXPLAIN
Whether the power of Parliament increased in this period
EVALUATE
Whether Elizabeth was able to control her Parliaments.

11. ‘Elizabeth was never able to control her Parliaments’
‘Elizabeth was never able to control her Parliaments’. Assess the validity of this view
FOR
AGAINST
Fierce opposition within the House of Lords to the 1559 Settlement (p.54 and 57)
The Crown was able to secure passage of its key legislation (homework handout)
Opposition to the Crown’s wishes from individual MPs: the Wentworths, Strickland, Cope (p and 150)
The House of Commons was carefully managed by privy councilors at least until the 1590s (p.65)
Debating of prerogative issues such as marriage and the succession irritated the Queen immensely (pp.65-66)
Most parliamentary sessions seem to have been conducted positively (pp.102)
Elizabeth’s last two parliaments were particularly marked by disputes (monopolies) (p )
A2 Elizabeth I Textbook
You are going to be given a paragraph to focus on. Your job is to plan a point, evidence, explain paragraph (colour-coded).
KNOW
The issues Parliament faced during Elizabeth’s reign
EXPLAIN
Whether the power of Parliament increased in this period
EVALUATE
Whether Elizabeth was able to control her Parliaments.

12. FLIP LEARNING TASK: Due after half term:
Type up your PEE paragraph (colour coded) and it to me BEFORE our next Tudor lesson. *You will not be allowed to the LRC to it me in lesson, and it will count as non-completion*
I am going to be checking your A2 Tudor revision grids in 2 weeks. (your second lesson on the last week of term)
Edward
Mary
Elizabeth (Religion)
Due after half term: