English Civil War

and Glorious Revolution

I. English Civil War started 1642

A. Cavaliers/Royalists = supported _____ king

B. Roundheads = supported _____ Parliament

Div

of Kings

II. English Commonwealth

A. Parliament abolished the _____ monarchy

B. created a commonwealth 1649-1653

1. like a republic – vote for ___________ who has power

2. all participants are equal

couldn’t go to the theater or do

C. Oliver Cromwell - Puritan

1. became leader of new Commonwealth

2. removed members of Parliament

who disagreed

sports, no celebrations, theaters were

III. The Restoration

A. Parliament gave power to Charles II

1. agreed he’d respect Parliament

B. Charles II and his brother James II

_____ Catholic

C. Exclusion Act

1. stop king from

___________ monarch’s religion

D. James II gave more power

to _____ Catholic church

remembered that Charles I believed in absolutism, made

and rather than start a war, they hoped that when one of

IV. The Glorious Revolution

A. wealthy landowners didn’t want _____

B. invited William of Orange to England

1. married to James II’s daughter Mary

C. James II gave up power

D. “Glorious” because no _____

V. English Bill of Rights

A. William and Mary became monarchs (1689)

B. create system of government based on

law – NOT _________________

C. Parliament’s power

1. make laws

2. set taxes

3. approve using army

D. citizen’s rights

1. keep arms

2. have a jury trial

destroyed…except by the lawful judgment of his peers.” Despite this policy, King John and later

rulers were still hostile to juries. They sometimes ignored them or even punished jurors for their

torture in prison. King Charles II freed the jurors after a few days, but fined each a lot of money.