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Meret Scheppach, Jakub Miedzinski

The Glorious Revolution

„Revolution of 1688“ or „Bloodless Revolution“

8. sources

structure

3. causes

7. effects

http://www.skwirk.com/p-c_s-1_u-105_t-279_c-930/NSW/5/Causes-and-effects-of-the-Glorious-Revolution/Democratic-Development/Introduction-to-Democracy/HSIE/

https://www.reference.com/history/were-cause-effects-glorious-revolution-2c5929b7d08654eb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution

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long-term causes:

  • Enlightment
  • religious rivalry
  • large army by James
  • increased power for the parliament
  • American colonies gained more political independence
  • Protestant domination
  • constitutional monarchy

1. background information

2. important persons

3. causes

long-term causes

short term causes

4. course

5. The Bill of Rights

6. outcome

7. effects

8. sources

short-term causes:

  • James replaced important Protestants with Catholics
  • birth and baptism of his son

4. course

What did the Glorious Revolution contribute to the development of democracy?

6. outcome

  • Bill of Rights: power balance has shifted further in favor of the parliament
  • more democratic due to the fact that decisions are now made by bigger groups

1. background information

  • 1688-1689 in England
  • "glorious" because
  • 1642-1649 civil war
  • parliament took over the power
  • after death of Oliver Cromwell: Charles II invited by parliament to rule as king
  • rules until 1685
  • his brother James II becomes king (Catholic)
  • problem: most of the country was Protestant
  • Mary (Protestant), his daughter would become queen of England so people didn't do anything
  • James II baptized his son
  • parliament invites Mary and he husband, William of Orange

5. The Bill of Rights

2. important persons

Charles II

William of Orange and Mary

  • Mary: Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (1689-94)
  • Protestant
  • wife of King William III
  • daughter of King James II
  • made it possible for her dutch husband to become co-ruler of England after he had overthrown James´s government
  • William of Orange: standholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands as Willam III (1672-1702)
  • King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1689-1702)
  • directed European opposition to Louis XIV of France
  • secured the triumph of Protestantism and of Parliament

  • King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1685-1688
  • deposed in the Glorious Revolution
  • exercise of power coint by Roman Catholicism

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