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The Long Parliament
- The Parliament controlled by Puritans that effectively limited Charles' power.
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The Petition of Right
- A petition forced by Parliament to limit King Charles' power
- Roundheads
- Supporters of Parliament and the Puritans during the English Civil War
- Rump Parliament
- This was the term for Parliament once the Puritans' opposition was removed
- Royalist
- The group that emerged in Rump Parliament to support the King
- Puritans
- A group of dissenters within the Church of England who wanted to purge the church of all things Catholic
- Parliament resented James I mainly for these three reasons:
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1. Belief in Divine Right
2. Spending too much $
3. Foreign Policy - The Short Parliament
- The session of Parliament called in an effort to raise $ for war in 1640 - lasted only 3 weeks because they could not cooperate with Charles
- martial law
- A period of military rule in which individual rights are restricted
- Cavaliers
- Supporters of the king during the English Civil War
- Commonwealth
- A state governed by the people or elected representatives. (England became one following Charles' execution)