English Civil War

King James wanted...

• • Representative

• • Democracy

• • Parliament

• • Theocracy

• • Absolute Monarchy

Calvinists (Protestants) in Scotland are known as __________.

• • Presbyterians

• • Lutherans

• • Baptists

• • Methodists

• • Mennonites

Henrietta Maria, the sister of Louis XIII of France, refused to convert to __________.

• • Orthodox Christianity

• • Lutheranism

• • Catholicism

• • Anglicanism

• • Calvinism

The Petition of Right (1628-1629)

• denounced the radical religious policies of Charles I’s government

• resulted in Parliament voting to execute the Duke of Buckingham

• addressed a range of Parliamentary grievances (problems with the king) and forced the king to agree to not raise taxes without the people's consent 

In 1640 Charles I called Parliament into session because he 

• sought to construction a new palace

• became a supporter of democratic principles

• needed funding to build a catherdral in London

• needed money to fight against a rebellion in Scotland 

Charles I of England faced a revolt against royal authority led by 

• The Anglican Church

• French Agents

• Parliament

• Peasants

• A Renegade governor of Ireland

Roundheads (Protestants) and Cavaliers (Royalists and Catholics) fought each other during the mid-17th century in  

• Spain

• France

• Holland

• England

• Russia

Who was the leader of the Roundheads in the English Civil War?  

• Henry VIII

• Parliament

• John Pym

• Charles I

• Oliver Cromwell

The period of British history 1649-1660, in which Britain was ruled not by a monarch, but by Oliver Cromwell, who was more like a ________  is known as The Commonwealth. 

• King

• Emperor

• Dictator

• President

• Pope

Charles I was executed by Parliament in _____.

• 1598

• 1702

• 1649