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English Neoclassicism Period
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English
12th Grade
02/29/2012

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Why was James II a problem?
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He was Catholic
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Who preceded James II?
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Charles II
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What happened in the Glorious Revolution?
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William and Mary of Orange took the throne
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Who were the next two in line after William and Mary?
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Queen Anne then James Stuart
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Why didn't James Stuart take the throne?
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He was Catholic and Parliament had passed a law saying no Catholic could be monarch
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Who took the throne after Anne/instead of James? Where were they from?
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The Three Georges I, II, III from Germany
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Whigs in Parliamentary
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Represented financial and mercantile intrests
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Tories in Parliament
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Represented country squires and old "Jacobites"; many were Catholic
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What did Puritans do for Parliament?
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Made it grow in power
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Plague year
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1665
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Great Fire
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1666
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Royal Society
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formed in 1662; promote development of science, philosophy, scholarship
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Royal Society members
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Isaac Newton (math/astronomy); William Harvey (blood circulation); John Locke (philosopher, economist, all knowledge comes from experience); Christopher Wren (architect)
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Defoe hierarchy
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1709; Great to Miserable
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Dissenters
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not affiliated with Ang Church
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Methodist
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supernatural and emotion
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upperclass dress
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outrageous
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art
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practical; portraits
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Gainsborough
Definition
foamous portrait doer
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