Mid Tudor Crisis: Economics

PowerPoint (with six slides) and two Word Documents that examine what caused the mid-Tudor economic crisis. The lesson focuses on economic problems including debasement, enclosure, unemployment, population growth, war, declining trade, inflation, disease and famine. It considers the social consequences of these problems, government attempts to deal with them and ultimately who was responsible.

Activities include

• Quick quiz focused on events from the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII that link to economic problems in the mid-Tudor period.
• A reading and comprehension task that requires students to connect the economic problems with the correct social impacts & government attempts to deal with them.
• A connection task requiring students to consider the interrelated nature of mid-Tudor economic problems.
• A judgment task to determine who or what was responsible for each economic problem.
• A judgment task to determine which figure in Tudor government was most responsible for the Mid-Tudor economic crisis.
• A reading and evaluation exercise to determine the utility of common contemporary commentators on the mid-Tudor economic crisis.

Designed for the teaching of OCR History Y106 The Early & Mid Tudors.
Duration: 1hr lessons approx.
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