Power & The People: Short Term Causes of The English Civil War

AQA GCSE history lesson for The Power & The People thematic unit. In this lesson we look at the short term causes of the Civil War.

We start with a retrieval practice quiz filled in for the P&TP Unit so far. We have a brief recap of the long term causes of the Civil War using picture prompts. We then look at the Long Parliament and the concessions made by Charles. We consider how happy Parliament would have been with each of the terms of the agreement using a reaction scale. We then consider the other potential causes in a thermometer analysis. The pupils rate and explain how much tension each action created, which they then explain why. We then look at the overall causes of the English Civil war, the pupils create a diagram of short/long-term and trigger events of the war using notes from this and previous lessons. The pupils finally complete an extentometer exercise to debate how much of a factor Charles’ attempted arrest of the five members was in triggering war.

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