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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
Henry VIII & Church Authority
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Supremacy
Ecclesiastical
Dissolution
Connect supremacy, ecclesiastical authority, and dissolution. Why should a historian distinguish a change in legal authority from changes in property and the experiences of local communities?
Read the situation.
Henry VIII’s break with papal authority involved dynastic, religious, legal, and political issues. The 1534 Act of Supremacy recognized the king as supreme head of the Church of England. It changed the location of religious authority in England; it did not immediately make every person’s belief identical or settle every doctrinal question.
02 Organize the information.
The dated file sequence
Anchors: 1534 Act of Supremacy; 1535 Valor Ecclesiasticus; 1536 law affecting smaller monasteries; 1539 legislation associated with further dissolutions.
Put the files in chronological order.
1535: Valor Ecclesiasticus survey.
1536: Legislation affecting smaller monasteries.
1539: Further dissolution legislation.
1534: Act of Supremacy.
Write the letters in order:
→→→
Explain why one step or event belongs where you put it.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
What does the evidence show?
Henry VIII & Church Authority
03 Follow the evidence.
Test the resource claim
Claim: “Institutional changes could increase royal control over resources.”
Select all evidence relevant to that claim.
Legal records placing an institution under royal authority.
Records transferring its property under the new arrangements.
A portrait showing Henry in expensive clothing.
A modern opinion about the king’s personality.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
The village question
A royal document orders a closure. You want to know how nearby residents experienced it.
Which next source is most useful?
Local accounts, petitions, and records of services before and after closure.
Another royal portrait with the same title.
An assumption that all residents responded identically.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write an archive summary connecting a change in authority to a change in resources. Use two dated steps and explain why a local consequence cannot be inferred from the king’s intentions alone.