The Rise of The Stuarts & The Defeat of Monarchy

The Rise of The Stuarts


1. When Elizabeth I died in 1603 her cousin James VI of Scotland, crowned James I, was made king.

• Both Catholics and Protestants disliked him.
• Guy Fawkes tried to destroy James I and parliament with bombs in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

2. When he died his son Charles I took the throne, he was also severly disliked.

• He dismissed Parliament and supressed many of the English citizens.
• He eventually caused the English civil war.

The Defeat of the Monarchy

1. The English Civil War was between the Royalists (Catholics, Anglicans, and nobility) and the supporters of Parliament (Puritans, smaller landowners, and the middle class).

• General Oliver Cromwell helped the supporters of Parliament win in 1645.
• Then Parliament established a commonwealth, it failed miserably.
• Then they invited Charles I's son, Charles II to be the new king.
• He created the Restoration.