There were many factors which lead to the out break of the English civil war. Some of these were long term causes, dating back to the very beginning of Charles reign. Other were short term causes dating back to the 1635’s. but there were also things that triggered the war such as the grand Remonstrance.
There is evidence that Charles was responsible for the civil war because of his ideas and behaviour about religion, Charles believed that changing the church to a more simple design would make the church better for people coming to church services and to make people focus on god and not on all the fancy things around him but he was wrong his kingdom hated the idea and thought he was changing his Puritan kingdom to a catholic church. However that was not all they were angry about, in 1625 Charles married a French catholic princess. Then in 1637 the Scottish turned against Charles because he wanted to change the Scottish prayer book to English. They had always hated the English prayer book as they thought it was to close to Catholicism. Lastly Charles was taught from James I that god had given him power to rule alone, which is why Charles dissolved parliament but if Charles had not off dissolved parliament his kingdom, all the puritans would of liked Charles as their king.
