Causes of the Civil War definitions

The war that broke out between King Charles I's Royalists against the Parliamentarians

• The "eleven-years tyranny" / Charles' "Personal Rule"

• The Civil War

• The Reformation

• The Restoration

A tax imposed on coastal towns to pay for their defence from naval attack. Charles I's decision to collect taxation this way was controversial because Parliament was supposed to approve new taxes, but he had found a loophole. In addition, this tax was supposed to be used to build the English navy at a time of danger, but Charles I spent the money on many other things, including personal luxuries.

• 1625

• Ship Money

• Divine Right of Kings

• Parliament

King Charles I becomes King of England

• 1624

• 1625

• 1642

• 1649

The theory that a monarch is appointed by God and should have absolute power. It was a belief that because God was all-powerful, God must have appointed monarchs to rule their states. For this reason, to question a monarch was to question God. This belief was used to justify giving monarchs absolute rule

• Ship Money

• The Divine Right of Kings

• Parliament

• The Civil War

A collection of people representing all of England, who approve or refuse laws

• Ship Money

• Divine Right of Kings

• 1625

• Parliament

Those who were loyal to Parliament, during the English Civil War dispute with the king

• Parliamentarians

• Puritans

• Royalists

• Divine Righters

A group of radical Protestants who wore plain clothing and tried to live without sin

• Parliamentarians

• Puritans

• Royalists

• Divine Righters

Those who were loyal to the King during the Civil War

• Parliamentarians

• Puritans

• Royalists

• Divine Righters

A ruler who has absolute power over his or her people

• Royalist

• Absolutist

• Parliamentarian

• Puritan

The Divine Right

• The illegal tax collected by Charles I

• The belief that the monarch is chosen by God to rule

• The belieft that the Church should be ;pure' and all Catholic elements removed

• A rule with absolute power over his people