England

The English Civil War

and the Glorious Revolution

The road to Constitutionalism

Rule of Elizabeth

Constitutionalism

Definition: Limitation of government by law.

Parliament – English nobility. Become an important part of English Constitutional monarchy.

How to make topic paragraphs in a DBQ

Like an LEQ, select topic paragraphs suggested by the prompt and documents.

“Views” – whose?

-Pro Elizabeth (why?)

-Anti-Elizabeth (why?)

-Her own

Elizabeth DBQPro-Elizabeth

Document 6 - painting

Document 3 – Act of Supremacy

Document 4 – Elizabeth’s friend

Anti –Elizabeth

Doc 2 – Anglican official

Doc 1 – John Knox (religious)

Her own POV- Doc 5 (I will marry England) Doc7 – reinforcing her absolute power.

Elizabeth dies in 1603

James VI of Scotland

1603-1625

Relations with Parliament/King James Bible

Parliament

• Made up of landowners and nobles

• New wealthy capitalist class

• Guards state pocketbook, “power of the purse” because they paid so much taxes

English Civil War will test whether power resides with king or with parliament.

BALANCE OF POWER

Rise of the Puritans

Oliver Cromwell

Charles I r.1625-1649

Need to know facts:

- Problems with the Scots

-Religious strife – Puritans perceive he is sympathetic to Catholics

Scotland and the book of Common Prayer

King Parliament/Cromwell

Write down issues that separate them, opinions they express , key plot points

Henrietta Maria…not England’sFavorite Queen

Charles IExecuted 1647

Relations withthe “RumpParliament”

Re-organziesEngland

Cromwell: 1653-1658...rule of a Dictator

Charles II “The Merry Monarch”

May 1660: Returns to England

The “NewMonarchy” inEngland

James II

Fear of CatholicSon on theThrone…1685

Mary II

Daughter of James II

William III of Orange

Lands in England in Nov. 1688

The Glorious Revolution

The Rule of William and Mary