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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
The Reformation
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Reformation
Indulgence
Censorship
Explain how a dispute involving an indulgence could connect to the broader Reformation. Why is censorship a separate question about authority over communication rather than proof that an argument persuaded readers?
Read the situation.
The Protestant Reformation involved disputes about religious teaching, authority, and practice. Luther’s 1517 challenge to indulgence preaching became part of a wider movement, but reformers did not agree on every issue. Political rulers and local institutions also shaped what happened. The existence of religious disagreement does not by itself explain the decisions of every government.
02 Organize the information.
Three different questions
A fictional archive tracks a pamphlet’s argument, production, and response.
Sort the records by their main question.
A. What did it argue?B. How did it circulate?C. How did authorities respond?
Example
Category letter
1. The text disputes a religious practice.
2. A printer records copies sent to three towns.
3. A ruler orders the pamphlet prohibited.
4. A woodcut summarizes the author’s criticism.
5. A bookseller records receipt of a shipment.
Explain one placement using a detail from the example.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
What does the evidence show?
The Reformation
03 Follow the evidence.
Test the claim of persuasion
Claim: “This pamphlet changed a particular town council’s policy.”
Select all records that directly connect the pamphlet’s argument with the town council’s policy decision.
Council minutes cite the pamphlet while debating the policy.
Correspondence links a council member’s changed position to its argument.
A printer’s ledger shows copies available in the town but records no reactions or policy discussion.
A preacher uses a similar religious argument in a different town.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
One movement, many actors
A summary says all Protestant reformers and political rulers wanted exactly the same changes.
Which correction is strongest?
Religious challenges interacted with varied political interests and disagreements among reformers.
Political institutions had no role in religious change.
Printing removed all disagreements among reformers.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write a print-shop report explaining one way print could support religious change and one reason it was not sufficient by itself. Include a specific type of institutional evidence.