Instability in the Republic
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- Created on: 04-12-22 19:07
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- Instability in the Republic 1649-1660
- Religion
- Radical groups
- Quakers
- Posed as a threat to the future of the Republic
- James Naylor case
- Went against Cromwell's desire for religious tolerence
- Ranters
- Seen as unholy and were persecuted
- Quakers
- Cromwell wanting religious tolerence
- England was now a Puritan nation and had Puritan reforms
- Disliked by many
- Constant uprisings
- Radical groups
- Economy
- Bad harvests 1649/1650
- Expeditions to Ireland and Scotland were expensive
- Politics
- Radical groups
- Levellers / Diggers (true levellers)
- Preached for equality for all men
- Especially appealed to the army
- Levellers / Diggers (true levellers)
- Rump Parliament
- Conservative (didn't want to change)
- Angered the army
- Supposed to be temporary but didn't want to lose the power they had
- Was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653
- They agreed to suspend discussions but continued to do so in secret
- Conservative (didn't want to change)
- Radical groups
- Unpopularity
- Refusal to acknowledge the Commonwealth after the regicide
- Even those who didn't like the king condemned it
- Disliking new reforms, like the Major Generals control
- Refusal to acknowledge the Commonwealth after the regicide
- Foreign Relations
- Threat of war against the Dutch in 1652
- Refusal to pay the new Navigation Tax that allows them to trade over the channel
- Scots acknowledged Charles II as their leader
- Threat of Royalist invasion from Ireland
- Cromwell leading a conquest of Ireland, causing tension
- Threat of war against the Dutch in 1652
- Oliver Cromwell
- Hypocritical
- Did things he criticised the King for doing
- Dissolving Parliament early
- Extravagant ceremonies
- Did things he criticised the King for doing
- 'ideological schizophrenia'
- Thought more of himself than he should (having delusions of grandeur)
- Saw himself as a religious figure (Moses parting the ocean, Abraham sacrificing his son)
- Unpopular
- People didn't like his new reforms and condemned his for allowing a regicide
- Hypocritical
- The Military
- Major Generals + Military Rule
- Unpopular
- Repressive reforms (no christmas, no activities, nothing deemed as unreligious 1656
- Constant uprisings
- NMA demanding to be paid for their efforts in the Civil Wars
- Supporting the Levellers, who promised equality for all men
- NMA demanding to be paid for their efforts in the Civil Wars
- Major Generals + Military Rule
- Religion
- Oliver Cromwell
- Hypocritical
- Did things he criticised the King for doing
- Dissolving Parliament early
- Extravagant ceremonies
- Did things he criticised the King for doing
- 'ideological schizophrenia'
- Thought more of himself than he should (having delusions of grandeur)
- Saw himself as a religious figure (Moses parting the ocean, Abraham sacrificing his son)
- Unpopular
- People didn't like his new reforms and condemned his for allowing a regicide
- Hypocritical
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