Ch16Lesson1Part2

1st period
 * Puritans believed that the church of England was still too much like the Roman Cathclic Church.
 * James I & Charles I strongly supported the Church of England as it was & both the king's persecuted the Puritans.
 * 1640 Charles I called Parliment into session.
 * Puritans were enemies of both kings.
 * Charles I & the Puritans exploded into civil warfare in 1642.
 * The leader of the Puritans, Oliver Cromwell, pulled together an army of supporters known as Caviliers.
 * In 1646 Cromwell's forces were defeated Charles' Cavaliers.
 * Charles I was tried, convicted, and beheaded as a traitor, in 1649.
 * England declared the new parlement to end the monarchy.
 * Cromwell could not control his new parliament in 1653.
 * Puritan nation was what Cromwell tryed to turn into England English people didn't want to be republic.
 * Cromwell ruled alone with surpport from the army