Milligan Final
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Milligan Final Hist.‑ 430
Tudor England
Summer, 2014
Do all four sections, answering one question from each section for twenty five points each. Do not do extra esssays- they will not be graded. If you have extra time, use it to improve the one answer you choose from each section. Please read each question carefully. Though they might look familiar, they are not necessarily exactly the same as the ones you have seen before. In addressing the question asked do not just make general statements about the subject in hand, be precise and specific. Answer them as comprehensively and with as much detail as you can in the time allowed. Be sure to be as thorough as you can.
This is assignment is open book, so you can use your books, notes, anything in the classroom, etc. If you quote something exactly, cite it, otherwise there is no need for source citation on this exam. Because of the nature of the exam- open book and forty eight hours to work- I expect thorough and detailed answers, and I expect the details (things you can look up like names and dates) to be correct! In particular, pay close attention to the chronological framework of the question asked, and do not deviate outside this framework. This is very important on this exam, and indeed paying attention to chronology and getting dates right can make a huge difference on your scores on this one- it is very easy to get distracted into events outside the frame of the question! If I am asking about things between 1590 and 1603 I don’t want to hear about earlier events.
Return one copy to me via E-mail and place a second copy in the assignments area by 23:59 on Sunday, July 27.
I. Mary I and Elizabeth’s Early Years
Given the massive popular reception of Mary as Queen, why do you think she was faced with rebellion so early in her reign? How did this rebellion affect Mary's actions in returning England to the Roman Church? Do you think that Mary's plan to return England to the Roman church had any chance of success? Why or Why not?
Wyatt’s Rebellion was in response to Mary’s determination to marry Phillip of Spain and return England and Wales to Papal authority. Mary was long hardened against the Protestant movement because of what it had done to her mother and England was long hardened against foreign influence, more specifically foreign influence that would put a Catholic Spaniard in charge of England with the authority to bankrupt the country in order to finance the wars that he was waging on the continent.
The Wyatt Rebellion showed Mary that the English people were no longer blindly obedient to their crowned heads of state as they once had been. They now, like she so stubbornly did during her father’s “Great Matter”, clung to their religion (Protestantism) to give them protection, even protection from Mary and her beloved Catholic Pope. This rebellion made Mary believe that extreme measures would be needed to return her subjects to Rome and set out to hunt them down from the bottom up. Ultimately, there would be roughly 300 people that would be burned alive and martyred in the Smithfield Fires. Mary’s plans to return England and Wales to Rome were doomed to fail. It would not have mattered if she had started burning children as heretics. There were far to many powerful men that had gained their wealth and property by her father’s dissolution of the monasteries that would have lost everything. Wyatt’s Rebellion was led by four truly powerful nobles at the time, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sire Peter Carew from Devon, and Sir James Croft from Herefordshire, and the Duke of Suffolk for Leicestershire. Had Mary have employed a more aggressive plan then she would have faced the might of all the Protestant nobility, everyone that stood to lose the property that they had purchased that was once the property of Rome. A secondary reason that Mary was bound to fail was because she was trying to force the hearts of her subjects. Religion has always been a sensitive subject and to
