Became king of England upon Elizabeth I's death
James I
Main cause of conflict with English monarchs in the late 1600s
Parliament
Monarch who dissolved Parliament in 1629
Charles I
Struggle between the Cavaliers and the Roundheads
English Civil War
General who led the Puritan attack on Charles I
Oliver Cromwell
Name for Charles II's reigh after Cromwell died
Restoration
Law passed by Parliament that gave every prisoner the right to have a judge specify the charges against him
Habeas Corpus
Ancestors of England's first political parties
Tories and Whigs
English king overthrown in the Glorious Revolution
James II
Under William and Mary England became this kind of government, in which laws limited the ruler's power
Constitutional Monarchy
A group of government ministers who acted in the ruler's name
Cabinet
The leader of the majority party in Parliament who leads the Cabinet
Prime Minister