How did Mary of Guise incite a civil war in Scotland?

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... rotestantism was spreading rapidly in Scotland, and Mary, though at first conciliatory toward the reformers, began a campaign of suppression. In 1559 the Protestants, exhorted by John Knox , rose against the regent and declared her deposed. Mary received French aid, but the Protestants, allied with the English, proved the stronger force... The civil war was concluded shortly after Mary's death by the Treaty of Edinburgh (1560), which ended the French domination of Scotland and opened the way for the establishment of the Protestant church.