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16 Cards in this Set
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Religious Causes
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Protestant Reformation vs. Catholic Orthodoxy, divided Europe along religious lines
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Protestantism
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more personal relationship with God
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Catholicism
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more connecting with God through Clergy
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King Charles’ reforms of the church
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Going against many core values of protestants in the country; saw himself as Protestant leaning, but everyone else saw him as very Catholic leaning (married a devout catholic)
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Financial Causes
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King needs parliament’s permission to levy taxes, Charles’ belief in personal rule, and parliament does not agree with wars king wants to fund
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Pride’s Purge
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Colonel Pride, set the “jury” up with people they know will go against the King
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The Christian goal
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wipe out paganism, and now Catholicism is coming along; The King’s lean towards Catholicism scares the people
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Oliver Cromwell
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“Lord Protector”, established “Cromwell’s Protectorate”
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Commonwealth
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is a republic and they abolish the house of lords people question the legitimacy of this that came after Charles’ decapitation
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Commonwealth Hardships (Ireland)
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Ireland was mainly Catholic so Charles looked to Ireland for support but Cromwell wanted to suppress and chance for uprising so he brings troops to Ireland (Wexford 1649 and Drogheda 1649)
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“Levellers”
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A group of people who believed in a leveling of society
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Moderate
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should keep normal class and social divide with a Biannual parliament
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“Diggers”
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Radical levellers who believed they should Eliminate rank completely (socialism)
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The Restoration
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in 1660; At the end of the Protectorate, Cromwell had difficulty holding power due to taxation followed by Cromwell’s death (1658) and the End of the Protectorate (1659)
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Cavaliers (as opposed to Roundheads)
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“Royalists” who claimed rule by absolute monarchy and the divine right of kings
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Roundheads (as opposed to Cavaliers)
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“Parliamentarians” who were supporters of the parliament of England during the English Civil War → they fought against Charles I of England and his supporters
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