I think that the English Civil War was inevitable due to many factors but mainly due to the dominance of parliament and the King and his moves. The phrase ‘civil war’ means that citizens of the same country engage in war against each other. I think that the Civil War was due to things happening gradually over a long period of time until it all became too much. I will categorize my essay into four main paragraphs: 1) Economic 2) Political 3) Religious 4) Social.
A long-term cause that began to cause slight friction between parliament and King Charles was that Parliament granted customs during for 1 yr only whereas his father King James was granted it for life. This caused Charles to start charging Ship Tax to people who lived in land as well as on the coast and also because a war was not on the horizon at that time. Charles called Parliament back bec
I find that religious causes were a huge factor of the Civil war breaking out. England’s main religion at that time was Protestantism. A long-term cause was the Thirty years War breaking out in Europe between Catholics and Protestants. Another long-term cause was that King Charles married a Catholic, named Henrietta Maria. A long-term cause was that Archbishop William Laud was making Church services more catholic. A medium term cause was that Charles forces his Anglican prayer book to the Scots. Due to this a group call the covenanters took over Scotland and invaded Northern England and came home with a glorious victory. Another medium term cause was that of the Earl of Strafford being tried for treason and then executed. After this rumours spread to Ireland and the Irish rebellion broke out this was also between Catholics and Protestants. Slowly but sur
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