english civil war

• Who were the sides of the civil war?

  Cavaliers - wealthy land owners, kings supporters, north England

  Roundheads- middle class/peasants, parliament, south England
• Who led the Roundheads?

  Oliver cromwell, Thomas fairfax
• What was the first battle of the Civil War?

  Battle of Edgehill- fought using cavalry and infantry
• What propaganda did the cavaliers use?

  Rupert and his dog boy
• When was the new model army first used?

  Battle of Naseby - 14,000:9000
• Where did the new model army capture in 1646?


  Bristol and oxford
• How did women help the war?

  Defended castles and worked as nurses
• When and why did the second civil war start?

  -battle of Preston 1648

  -wrote to Scot's and promised them a Presbyterian church is they fought Cromwell
• What was the Rump Parliament?

  what was left after Cromwell purged the members who did not support him
• When was the Rump Parliament?

  December 1648
• Who met at Newmarket to discuss issues that concerned the future of British government?

  Two representatives from each regiment
• When were the Putney Debates?

  October-November 1647
• Who were the Levellers and diggers?

  Levellers -A group that wanted political power to come from the people

  Diggers- more radical
• What did the Levellers believe in?

  that all men should be able to vote

  Everyone should be free to follow their own relgion

  Tithes should be abolised
• What did the Diggers believe?

  Nobody should own property

  Everything should be shared equally

  Everybody should work
• Reasons for excecuting Charles II

  moral - Charles approved ill treatment of cavaliers

  Religious- kings defeat was a sign of gods providence

  Economic- end of taxes (ship tax)
• Short term consequences of Charles excecution?

  -stunned Western Europe

  -first challenge between popular sovereignty and royal divinity
• long term concequencesof Charles execution?

  1688 glorious revolution

  American revolution

  Legitimate authority at consent of people
• When was Charles excecuted

  30th January 1649