Question

the conflict between king charles i and parliament was based a. on parliament's wish to increase the rights of the monarchy. b. on charles' belief that he had the divine right to rule. c. on the alliance between the church and parliament. d. on the conflict between the tudors and the stuarts.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct option is option A:

Explanation:

English Civil Wars, also called Great Rebellion, (1642–51), fighting that took place in the British Isles between supporters of the monarchy of Charles I (and his son and successor, Charles II) and opposing groups in each of Charles’s kingdoms, including Parliamentarians in England, Covenanters in Scotland, and Confederates in Ireland. The English Civil Wars are traditionally considered to have begun in England in August 1642, when Charles I raised an army against the wishes of Parliament, ostensibly to deal with a rebellion in Ireland. But the period of conflict actually began earlier in Scotland, with the Bishops’ Wars of 1639–40, and in Ireland, with the Ulster rebellion of 1641. Throughout the 1640s, war between king and Parliament ravaged England, but it also struck all of the kingdoms held by the house of Stuart—and, in addition to war between the various British and Irish dominions, there was civil war within each of the Stuart states. For this reason the English Civil Wars might more properly be called the British Civil Wars or the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The wars finally ended in 1651 with the flight of Charles II to France and, with him, the hopes of the British monarchy.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is B. The conflict between king Charles I and Parliament was based on Charles' belief that he had the divine right to rule.

Explanation:

Charles I Stuart was king of England, Scotland, Ireland and France from March 27th 1625 until his death on January 30th 1649.

Fervent supporter of the divine right of kings, just like his father James I, he was engaged in the first phase of his reign in a tough power struggle against the English Parliament, which resolutely opposed his absolutist aspirations to suppress the use of the Magna Carta, especially countering his claim to collect taxes without parliamentary consent.  

Another cause of friction with a part of English society was his religious policy: persevering in the "intermediate path" of the Anglican Church, he was hostile to the reformed tendencies of many of his English and Scottish subjects and accused by them of being in turn too close to Roman Catholicism, to the point of wanting to restore it.

The political and religious tensions accumulated over the years exploded in the English Civil War: the forces of Parliament clashed against him, who opposed his attempts to increase his power in an absolutist sense, and the Puritans, who were hostile to his religious policies. The war ended with a defeat for Charles I, who was captured, tried, convicted and executed on charges of high treason. The monarchy was abolished and a republic was founded in its place, but after the death of the main leader of the revolution, Oliver Cromwell, it quickly went into crisis, allowing Charles' son Charles II to restore the monarchy.