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UNIT 6 (a) QUESTIONS

Specimen: What do you consider to have been Cromwell’s main political and religious aims as Lord Protector?


2002: What considerations influenced Cromwell’s decisions to reject the offer of the Crown?


2003: Explain the ways in which the First Protectorate Parliament failed to fulfil Cromwell’s expectations.


2004: Explain what Cromwell wanted his First and Second Protectorate Parliaments to achieve?


2005: In what ways did Cromwell’s religious priorities influence his political decision making?


2006: What problems did Cromwell have in establishing the rule of the Major-Generals?


UNIT 6 (b) QUESTIONS

Specimen: A “dictatorship of the general’s naked and unashamed”: using your own knowledge, and the evidence of these sources, explain how far you would agree with the interpretation of government during the Protectorate?


2002: n/a


2003: Using all five sources and your own knowledge, how far do you agree with the author of Source that in the years 1653-8 the army was Cromwell’s “only hope of combing godly rule with godly liberty”?


2004: Using the evidence of all 5 sources, and your on knowledge, how far do you agree with the view that Cromwell was unable to establish stable republican government because, throughout his time as Lord Protector, he was “fundamentally and instinctively conservative”?


2005: Using all six sources and your own knowledge, explain how far you agree with the view that the Army was the greatest hindrance to establishing settled government in the years 1653-8.


2006: Using the evidence of all six sources and your own knowledge, explain how far you agree with the view that Cromwell himself was the main reason for the failure to achieve his aims during his time as Protector.


THEMES/TOPICS EACH YEAR

Specimen

  • Main political and religious aims
  • The Protectorate as a Military Dictatorship, more like a Revolutionary Republic as argued by Coward.*


2002

  • Reasons to the rejection of the Crown


2003

  • Failure of First Protectorate Parliament
  • Cromwell’s expectations of the First Protectorate Parliament
  • Army and Cromwell’s relationship
  • Combination of godly rule and godly liberty


2004

  • Instability of a Republican state under Cromwell
  • Cromwell’s conservativeness
  • Cromwell’s radicalism


2005

  • Religious priorities and political decisions
  • Army as a hindrance
  • Settlement: the trials and tribulations


2006

  • Problems Cromwell encountered due to Major-Generals
  • Cromwell as the liability of the Protectorate
  • Cromwell failing to achieve his own aims, his own fault
  • Impossibility of the contemporary situation


Comments

These notes are aimed at A Level history students.

Originally written by all red and ermine on TSR Forums.

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