Question 1
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How many rebels were involved in the Pilgrimage of Grace?
Question 2
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Which city did the rebels take control of in the P of G?
Question 3
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Why castle did the rebels take in the P of G?
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Pontefract Castle
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Cooling Castle
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Barnard Castle
Question 4
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How many rebel casualties were there at Sampford Courtenay in the Western Rebellion?
Question 5
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What two places did the rebels attack during the Western Rebellion?
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Exeter and Norwich
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Norwich and Bodmin
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Exeter and Bodmin
Question 6
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During the Western Rebellion, the government agent [blank_start]William Body[blank_end] was murdered.
Question 7
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During Kett's Rebellion, the rebels took [blank_start]Norwich[blank_end]: [blank_start]Northampton[blank_end]'s troops were defeated.
Question 8
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During Kett's rebellion, troops had to be sent down from the Scottish border to suppress the rebellion.
Question 9
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How many rebels were involved in Kett's?
Question 10
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How many rebels were killed during Kett's rebellion?
Question 11
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In Wyatt's rebellion, the rebels attacked [blank_start]Gravesend[blank_end] and [blank_start]Cooling[blank_end] Castle.
Question 12
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What castle did the Earls of the Northern Rebellion take?
Question 13
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COMPLETE THE SENTENCE: the aforementioned factors ensured that these rebellions were limited in their seriousness, although [blank_start]contemporarily[blank_end], they may have seen to be a much greater threat at the time.
Question 14
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Robert Aske: why was he a poor leader?
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He gave the rebellion a religious coating through the five wounds of Christ, but failed to convince others to follow suit.
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He fought the royal army on the open plains.
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He did not act on his position of strength and accepted the pardon.
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He gave the government the opportunity to play for time.
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He dallied over the capture of York.
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He was a reluctant leader: he was forced to rebel by the clergy in Louth.
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He failed to prevent the third rising from occurring.
Question 15
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Who was the supposed 'reluctant' leader of the Western rebellion?
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Humphrey Arundell
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Thomas Moore
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William Sailsbury
Question 16
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Wyatt was a poor leader as he failed to gain support: he was seen as [blank_start]unpatriotic[blank_end] as he was rebelling against [blank_start]Mary[blank_end].
Question 17
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What were the economic causes of the Western Rebellion?
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Tax on cloth and sheep.
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Slump in the Kent cloth trade.
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Textile industry collapsed.
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The issue of enclosures caused some individuals to lose their right to common land.
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Rents had been raised excessively.
Question 18
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What was the social reason for the Western Rebellion?
Question 19
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What were the economic reasons for Kett's rebellion?
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Slump in the Kent cloth trade.
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They opposed the enclosure of land.
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Rents had been raised excessively.
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They were against the issue of rents, particularly rack renting.
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The textile industry had collapsed.
Question 20
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Kett's rebellion was also down to a hatred of individuals, such as that of [blank_start]John Flowerdew[blank_end], a [blank_start]lawyer[blank_end] who brought up Church property in the area and outraged the rebels with his rapacity.
Question 21
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What was the economic reason for Wyatt's rebellion?
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Rents had be raised excessively.
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The Kent cloth trade had declined, leading to increasing levels of unemployment.
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The use of enclosures.
Question 22
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What was the social reason for Wyatt's rebellion?