England Flashcards
Tudors and Parliament
Henry ViI gave up power to parliament. He made parliament his 🐕. When Elizabeth became queen she also used parliament and made them work for her.
Parliament
They are responsible for raising taxes
Stuarts and Parliament
When James I became king nobody liked him and parliament used him and made the country go into debt.
Puritans
They hated catholics. They wanted to purify the church of england.
Charles I
He married a catholic woman. Parliament made him meet with them every 3 years to have a meeting which caused the English civil war.
English civil war
Kinda casual. The 2 sides were the royalists and the roundheads. The royalists were Charles’ team and the roundheads were parliament. Oliver Cromwell was the leader of the roundheads.
Oliver Cromwell
He led the roundheads in the English civil war. He was incharge in place of charles. England became a commonwealth because of him.
Commonwealth
England became one because they didn’t have a king or monarch.
Restoration
When things went south with Cromwell Charles II became king.
Glorious Revolution
James II was unpopular because he was catholic. So parliament got William of Orange and his wife Mary to be rulers. They established a constitutional monarchy.
Constitutional Monarchy
Set limitations to the government