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level: The Peasants' Revolt 1381

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level questions: The Peasants' Revolt 1381

Question	Answer
-Effects of Black Death 1348 - shortage of workers as 1/3 died - wanted higher wages (social and economic) -Statute of Labourers (economic) -The Sumptuary Laws 1363 (social) - controlled what peasants could eat and wear	long term causes of the peasants' revolt (3)
-1351 - maximum wage set for peasants because they were asking for too much - peasants arrested if refused to work at that wage -despite the need for workers and more land available, the poor stayed poor	When and what was the statute of labourers? (2) and what did it lead to?
70%	Percentage of people brought before Justices of the Peace for breaking Statute of Labourers 1377-79
-Richard II became King - Uncle John of Gaunt hated - tax -Losing French land - hundred years war -New poll tax - 3rd in 3 years - everyone over 13 had to pay 4 groats a year -Priests like John Ball started preaching equality	Short term causes of the Peasants' revolt (4)
Men joined forces wanting to remove bad priests and evil landowners	Essex and Kent
Fobbing, Essex - Poll tax collector threatened	30th May
Villagers unite and threaten tax collectors that return to Fobbing and kill them	2nd June Brentwood
-Peasants March to Maidstone to hear Wat Tyler -Free John Ball from prison -Kill Archbishop of Canterbury -Burn government buildings -Marched to London	7th June Kent (5)
-King Richard sails towards peasants down river -Hears booing noise and retreats -Says he'll meet them in 5 days	12th June (3)
-Peasants enter London -Burn John of Gaunt's palace -Kill King's supporters -Not all violent - Wat Tyler's men are peaceful -King says to meet tomorrow at Mile End	13th June (5)
-Wat Tyler met King and listed demands -Some peasants go on another killing spree	14th June (2)
-Royal pardon given to all -Villeins to be made freemen	Wat Tyler's initial demands (2)
-King meets Wat Tyler in Smithfield - new demands (changes to law and church) -King's man kills Tyler -peasants confused -King shouts and rides forward -Peasant's leave London	15th June (4)
"Would you kill your King? I am your leader, follow me."	What does the King shout - 15th June
-Leaders rounded up and hanged -John Ball cut to pieces - head on a spike next to Wat Tyler's on London Bridge	Short term consequences of revolt (2)
-Poll tax never repeated - huge riots 1990 when Margaret Thatcher introduced council tax named poll tax -Workers wages rose over time - demands were agreed to -Rebel peasants bought leftover land from black death with higher wages - didn't have to work the Lord's land -Gradually became freemen	Long term consequences of revolt (4)
First time ordinary people started a revolt - change for peasants	Significance
-Some say it was unnecessary because reform was already coming -Socialists say it was the first working-class rebellion -Some go further - peasants were politicised and organised - led to start of English ideas of freedom	Historians' interpretations (3)