https://padlet.com/valkenyt/r7k0wst6dd3b Made with an open mind en-us 2016-11-10 17:15:25 UTC 2017-05-17 08:39:12 UTC hello@padlet.com valkenyt https://padlet.com/valkenyt/r7k0wst6dd3b/wish/136809404 The action of returning something to a former owner, place, or condition.]]> 2016-11-10 17:16:12 UTC https://padlet.com/valkenyt/r7k0wst6dd3b/wish/136809404 valkenyt https://padlet.com/valkenyt/r7k0wst6dd3b/wish/136809652 The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, 1660-1785. The Restoration period begins in 1660, the year in which King Charles II (the exiled Stuart king) was restored to the English throne. England, Scotland, and Wales were united as Great Britain by the 1707 Act of Union.]]> 2016-11-10 17:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/valkenyt/r7k0wst6dd3b/wish/136809652 valkenyt https://padlet.com/valkenyt/r7k0wst6dd3b/wish/136810478 After the death of Oliver Cromwell in Sept., 1658, the English republican experiment soon faltered. Cromwell's son and successor, Richard, was an ineffectual leader, and power quickly fell into the hands of the generals, chief among whom was George Monck, leader of the army of occupation in Scotland.]]> 2016-11-10 17:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/valkenyt/r7k0wst6dd3b/wish/136810478 valkenyt https://padlet.com/valkenyt/r7k0wst6dd3b/wish/136810757 Control of policy fell to Charles's inner circle of old Cavalier supporters, notably to Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon, who was eventually superseded by a group known as the Cabal.]]> 2016-11-10 17:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/valkenyt/r7k0wst6dd3b/wish/136810757 valkenyt https://padlet.com/valkenyt/r7k0wst6dd3b/wish/136811229 The crown, however, was still dependent upon Parliament for its finances. The unwillingness of Charles and his successor, James II, to accept the implications of this dependency had some part in bringing about the deposition (1688) of James II]]> 2016-11-10 17:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/valkenyt/r7k0wst6dd3b/wish/136811229