1. Absolute Monarchy

2. The Magna Carta
Limits Power
English Monarchy
1215 C.E.

3. Elizabeth I - England

4. King James I Was King of Scotland
Believed Divine Right > Parliament
Parliament controlled $$$$$

5. King Charles I (1625- 1649) Made Promises to Parliament Broke Promises
Disbanded Parliament ( )
Collected "Ship Money" instead of taxes
Angers the Scots
Recalls Parliament
Tries to arrest members of Parliament
Civil War Breaks Out
Captured by Oliver Cromwell
Flees England
Recaptured and Beheaded

6. England becomes a Republic (Commonwealth)
Cromwell was commander and chief
· Crushed a Catholic uprising in Ireland
· Quelled an uprising in Scotland
· Internal challenge from a group (the Levelers) wanted free speech, religious tolerance, democratic republic, equal rights for women and Parliament to have the right to meet every year
"I tell you...you have no other way to deal with these men but to break them or they will break you; ….and make void all that work that, with so many years' industry, toil, and pains, you have done"
Was Cromwell a dictator?

7. Who should be King after Cromwell died?
1st Choice – Charles the II brother James
Catholic
Had a son late in life
Will England be ruled by a Catholic?
2nd Choice- William of Orange
Asked by Parliament to "invade England"
Despised Louis XIV of France
"Glorious Revolution"