Assignment: Tolerance?
Name:
1. Use the Internet and library resources to research religious intolerance European History.
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Put the following instances of religious intolerance and violence in Europe in
chronological order. Rank them in the order they occurred from first to last and include
the year of each event at the end of the event description.
______St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in France leads to the death of tens of thousands of
Protestants by Catholic mobs.
______Mary I of England has former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer burned at
the stake.
______ King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issue the Edict of Expulsion, forcing all
of the Jews in Spain to either leave the country or convert to Christianity.
______ Oliver Cromwell and his army attack the town of Drogheda in Ireland, killing
thousands of civilians, including many Catholic priests.
______ King Edward I of England expels all Jews from the country and orders their property
to be confiscated.
______ Galileo Galilei dies under house arrest after being forced by the Roman Inquisition to
publicly renounce his scientific beliefs, which later proved to be correct.
______Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, effectively making Protestantism illegal in
France.
______ William Tyndale is burned at the stake as punishment for translating the Bible into
English.
2. Select two of the events you researched. For each event provide the following information:
a. What prompted the event? What was the history, the background that led to this event?
b. What was the long term impact of the event? The event itself may have only lasted for a
day, but you need to describe the long term consequences of what happened.
3. In the United States today we are provided by law with religious freedom. Considering what
you have studied and your knowledge of events in the United States (you might want to brush up
on your knowledge) how do you think we compare to the history of religious tolerance and
intolerance? Are we steadily building ideas of more acceptance? Do you think we need more
acceptance? How do you think the events of the past that you researched impact our experiences
today?