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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