As he was the king, he had thought that he had the power to make the Scots use English prayer books. The scots were so furious that they decided to fight Charles I instead. This also made him unpopular to the scots as well as the people of England. When the scots had defeated him Charles had to pay lots of tax money which he couldn’t afford. So, Charles had to recall parliament, as only tax voted by parliament got rid of the scots.
The lack of full government support greatly contributed to this. All in all, Canada’s involvement in the Second Boer War was a mistake that did not serve the best interests of the country. For Canada, confederation was a time to cut many ties with Britain and become their own independent country. However, the Boer War was a large set back in this area because of the way Britain tried to control Canada in their decisions, and Canada unfortunately let them. Laurier was opposed to imperial confederation and believed that the Canadian cabinet should decide Canada’s participation in the war.
The 2nd most important factor that led to this rebellion was that they were being restricted of civil liberties. This was a result of the colonists not being able to follow the new laws promptly, which made the colonists begin to lose hope in their King. The 3rd factor was the British military measures. This really pushed the colonists to lose their respect for the king because the colonists and the British forces were not cooperating with each other and the British military at one point enforced Martial Law on the colonists. Finally, the 4th factor that resulted in this rebellion was how the colonists formed their own political and religious ideas that were very unpopular in Great Britain.
A famous historian, George Dangerfield, thought that the liberal party had been declining in popularity due to how they were not efficient nor equipped enough to handle the agitation of the trade unions, suffragettes and the problems within Ireland. The House of Lords had played a major role in the demise of the Liberal party. The Liberal party had numerous amounts of bills and acts that they had wanted to pass, however due to the house of lords, which predominately consisted of conservative and liberal unionist MP’s, they were able to block them which prevented them being passed. For Example, the lords had blocked Gladstone’s second home rule bill in 1893. The Lords had also blocked a major reform of the Liberals known as the 1909 Budget by 350 votes to 75 for.
Also the state of the country during World War One left a lot to be desired and created a lot of dissatisfaction amongst the Russian people. Tsar Nicholas II was responsible for the fall of the Romanov dynasty, but to a notable extent, as there were other factors more significant to account for the collapse of the Romanovs. It’s reasonable if one states that Nicholas II was responsible for stardom’s collapse. Many criticized the Tsar as a Monarch whose capacity for hard work and commitment wasn’t matched by outstanding intelligence, and had no clear vision for Russia’s future. Nicholas was not suited to his role as Tsar, and would rather spend his time with his family.
The decline in Russia’s war performance caused morale in the army as well as in the country to also decrease. However, this in itself was not enough to cause the Tsarist regime to fall. The situation of war was made worse by the fact that in September 1915 after the Russians lost Poland; the Tsar took personal control of the army and dismissed this Uncle Nikolai. As a result, poor military performance could be blamed directly on the Tsar himself. This in turn caused his support to wither and his opponents to build up in number.
The Great Reform Act of 1832 achieved the majority of the key reformers’ concerns yet largely ignored the aims and in many instances wilfully suppressed the aims of the less important factions within it. The most important faction of the Reformers was the revitalised Whig Party as its’ necessity to regain power in government and the derived need to alienate Peel and the Tories from such a Reform bill was one of the main reason why the Great Reform Act was actually so ‘radical’. By extension of this factor and also the fact that the Great Reform Act was directly passed by the Whig party it is only logical to describe them as the most important faction within that of the Reformers. It was largely due to the factor that the Great Reform Act was directly passed by the Whigs that it achieved so many of their aims. The Great Reform Act also achieved the majority of the middle classes’ aims by giving them the vote and by protecting their property although the benefits to the middle class were certainly less pronounced than those enjoyed by the Whigs.
Essex’s humiliation also played a great part in causing the rebellion as he faced dismissals from court, house arrest and a slap from Queen Elizabeth I. By 1600 Essex was broke and no longer a favourite of the Queen, he had been humiliated greatly through military losses and loss of status and was constantly being outmanoeuvred by the Cecil faction who, in the Essex faction’s eyes was stealing their place in court. Factional reasons were the main cause of the Essex rebellion because there was a constant rivalry between the Essex faction and the Cecil faction. The Cecil faction only joined court in 1547(?) under Edward Seymour as Duke of Somerset whereas the Essex faction had been there for many more generations and this angered them greatly this is because the Cecil faction were seen to be new money, meaning that they had not come from a long line of wealth, unlike the Essex faction.
The harsh reparation payments by the Treaty Of Versailles ( £6600 million) was indeed a threat to the Weimar Republic. However, there was low unemployment of 17% and a growth in foreign investment. This economic crisis led to a more extreme political threat within German and therefore should be considered as more significant. There a high amount of tension between parties, and strikes between both the Left and the Right were becoming ever more apparent due to the lack of faith within the government. In fact the groups within the right such as the Freikorps and consul organisation showed an increasing amount of violence because of their lack of support on democracy, which of course created a tremendous threat to the Weimar Republic.
Buckingham was also largely resented in Parliament due to his wealth and awful foreign policy. They called him ‘the cause of all our miseries’. Even though there were other reasons such as religion historians such as Conrad Russell agree that finance was the most prominent reason for the bad relationship. Finance was the cause to several problems during Charles’s reign. At the start of which his first Parliament of 1625 offered him two subsidies to demonstrate their loyalty however Charles asked for more which was unprecedented.