Why was King James 1 so important?

Answer 1

king john is important because he signed the Magna Carta which their members had told him to and that they wrote. He is also important because he fought in crusades and had four children. He had come from his father Richard and became king after his brother who was the oldest and he was the youngest.

Answer 2

king james was important because he was a king and he help america to succed because he wanted peoples to be free i mean not being slaves or something else that peoples would never want to be the..

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Answer 3

James the II and VII was the King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the death of his brother Charles II until he was overthrown by William of Orange and Mary, his own daughter, during the Glorious Revolution.

James was a child during the Civil Wars which overthrew his father Charles I and grew up in exile serving in the French and Spanish armies. After his brother Charles II was restored to the English, Scottish and Irish thrones he returned to the British kingdoms.

James was an important man before he became king as the Duke of York (not the one from the song he comes later), serving as the Admiral of the Royal Navy during two wars with the Dutch and being granted control of the American Colonies between the Delaware and Connecticut Rivers. New York and Albany are both named for him and the colonies grew under his governance.

James was however a Catholic. Since the Civil wars the English Parliament had been deeply suspicious of Catholicism and threats to "freedom of worship"(except for Catholics). He was 'outed' after Parliament passed a "New Test Act" where to hold public office you had to swear you were not a Catholic. James could not and so resigned all of his posts. There were then attempts to have him excluded from the throne but these failed, leaving lingering resentment on both sides.

When he came to the throne he tried to have the restrictive anti-catholic laws repealed, used his royal powers to bypass some of them and began to run into the same problems with Parliament, the Established Church and hardline Protestants that his father had - religious conflict, tyrannical power and lack of compromise. This culminated in the Glorious Revolution in 1688-9, which largely leads to the modern British State.

The English Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Rights were both drafted in restrict the powers of the crowns which William accepted after James II and VII and form part of the UKs 'unwritten' constitution today. Events and documents from his reign also served as direct inspiration to the US framers of their constitution. The forbidding of Religious Tests and separation of Church and state for instance.

Answer 4

Prince James was important because he is.