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Role of religion
It was illegal for puritants to hold their own church service and many of them were fired and imprisoned for their belief . A group of puritants chartered a ship to take them to America where the founded puritant colony. -
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Oliver Cromwell
was the leader of the common wealth of England. he wanted to remove the king from power so new power could be fair. -
Groups included
The Scots
The English -
Cause of English Revolution
Charles and James had very different personalities. Charles was arrogant, conceited and a strong believer in the divine rights of kings. He found it difficult to believe that a king could be wrong. His conceit and arrogance were eventually to lead to his execution. -
Glourious Revolution
From the Begining of the reign of James II, he infuriated the parliament by giving high officers to catholics, in spite of the test act. In 1688 the parliament invited James's protestant daughter, Mary and her husband, William of Orange to become king and queen of England. -
Results of English Revolution
The Monarchy got a severe reminder that they were a Constitutional Monarchy and that they were not an Absolute Monarchy and did not have absolute power.King Charles overstepped the mark and was executed. Bitain became a Commonwealth for a few years. Oliver Cromwell proved to be a brutal and relatively ineffective leader. -
Bill of my Rights
It is the basis for our rights as citizens today. -
Declaration of Independence
It announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13 newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Treaty of Paris
It ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America and its allies of other nations like France, Spain, etc... -
Cause of American Revolution
The 13 American colonies wanted independence from Great Brittain but Great Brittain would not allow it so the went to war and allied up with france. -
Cause of French Revolution
Population was increasing and food was decreasing -
Results of French revolution
Feudalism was ebolished and Napoleon was killed.
Govnt introduced new paper currency.
King louis XVI killed
Many people killed on gullontine -
The 3 Estates
King
Clergy 1%
Noblbles 2%
Others 97% -
National Assembly
The 3rd estate created the national assembly. The Bastille is where they had their tennis court oath. -
Costitutional Monarchy
King has little authority, he must follow constitution -
Louis XVI
He tried to reform france with Enlightenment ideas. He supported the North American colonies. He is the only French King to ever be executed and was the end of French monarchies. -
Allies
United States and France allies against Great Britain in the Revolutionary War. The French backed the U.S. until the U.S. had full independence from Great Britain. -
George Washingtong
was the first President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
Result of American Revolution
The 13 american colonies signed the Treaty of paris and gained their independence from great Brittain. -
Thomas Jefferson
He was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States.
