British
history tasks
VY_32_INOVACE_AJ3r0203
By Mgr. Šárka Jurajdová
1 Early history: Fill in the chart with the words below.
Runes
5th – 9thc. 1066 public baths
William the Conqueror Alfred the Great 43AD Hadrian’s Wall
Fortresses hall tribal kinship 6 kingdoms druidic ceremonies Wessex Danelaw Stone formations
Celts
Romans
Anglo-Saxons
Vikings
Bards
Normans
2 Middle Ages: Place each of the events mentioned below on the time axis and write the proper decade or date:
♣ Richard I: the third crusade to Palestine
♣ Charles I: desire for absolute power ♣ The Wars of the Roses ♣ Conquest
of Wales
♣ Elizabeth I: flowering of theatres
♣ The Restoration ♣ Hundred Years’ War ♣ Stirling, William
Wallace fights for Scottish independence
♣ The Act of Supremacy ♣ Black Death
♣ Civil War: Oliver Cromwell ♣
James I: unification of England and Scotland ♣ Glorious Revolution ♣ 1st Parliament summoned ♣ Magna Carta
Libertatum
♣ “Bloody Mary” (Protestants persecuted)
12th
14th
15th
17th
th
th
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3 18 , 19 , 20 centuries: Match the following expressions and indicate the relation between them.
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Industrial revolution (18th c)
The Factory Act (1833)
The Mines Act (1842)
The 2nd Reform Act (1867)
The Education Act (1870)
The Irish Potato famine (1840s)
The Boer War (1899 – 1902)
colonialism (19th c)
Suffragettes (19/20th c)
the Allies
The 5th Parliamentary Act (1928)
Winston Churchill
Battle of Britain (1941)
Margaret Thatcher (1979)
South Africa
limits to working hours of children
support of private enterprise
Struggle for enfranchisement for women
WWI
huge emigration to the USA
Empress Victoria
organization of primary education
WWII, Prime Minister
franchise for working people in towns
abolishment of women labour in mines
Germany bombing Britain
Enfranchisement for women
The First British Empire
manufacturing