After eleven years of personal rule, Charles I was forced to call parliament into session in 1640
A) because he wished to go to war with France.
B) to legalize Presbyterianism in England.
C) to ratify a peace treaty with the Irish.
D) to recognize a new heir after the death of his oldest son.
E) because he was unable to defend England against a Scottish rebellion.
E
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