2.2 What Caused The Spanish Armada(relations With Spain)

Question 1

What was a key part of Elizabeth’s foreign policy?

Answer 1

Improve trade to benefit the economy

Question 2

How did Elizabeth’s Foreign policy of improve trade to benefit the economy cause problems?

Answer 2

English Merchants trading in the New world needed licences from Spain(hard to get)

The merchants resulted in trading illegally and attacked Spanish ports and ships. This angered Philip II of Spain

Question 3

How did Drake make a name for himself?

Answer 3

Made fortunes from trading in the new world. He captured numerous Spanish ships ans seized their cargos

This caused Elizabeth to hire Drake as a privateer in 1572

Question 4

When does Elizabeth hire Drake as a privateer?

Answer 4

1572

Question 5

What does Drake do after being made a privateer by Elizabeth?

Answer 5

Captures £40,000 of Spanish silver in Parma, this angers Philip

Question 6

When does Elizabeth send Drake of to the new world and what were her two plans?

Answer 6

November 1577

• offical plan:bring back gold and silver to England
• secret plan: attack Spanish colonies in the New world

Question 7

By what year were anglo-spanish relations very bad

Answer 7

1577

Question 8

When drake Circumnavigates the globe(1577-1580) what three things does he do that angers Philip?

Answer 8

• plundered Spanish ports on the coastline
• set up a region in North California in Elizabeth’s name- New Ablion

-brought £400,000 worth of treasure back to England

Question 9

When Drake returns from circumnavigating the globe, what does Elizabeth do that angers Philip?

Answer 9

She publically knights Drake on the decks of the golden hind-this made Philip angry because he saw Drake as a pirate stealing what was his

Question 10

From what year were Spanish troops and ships sailing to the Netherlands with troops and ships?

Answer 10

1567

Question 11

What did Elizabeth decide to do in the Netherlands

and what three things does she do to act on this

Answer 11

She decides put pressure on the Spanish to return the Netherlands to its goverment system of 1548 which involved Dutch autonomy)

She did this by!

• helping the Dutch Protestants resist the Spanish
• Allow English privateers to attack Spanish ships and colonies
• promises a marriage alliance to the heir of France: the duke of Alençon and persuades him to fight Spain in the netherlands

Question 12

When was the Spanish fury and what occured?

Answer 12

1576

-unpaid Spanish forces rampage through Dutch provinces and sack Antwerp

Question 13

What to the Dutch to in response to the Spanish fury?

Answer 13

All Dutch provinces join up and create the Pacification of Ghent

Question 14

What three things are in the pacification of Ghent?

Answer 14

• Spanish troops expelled from the Netherlands
• end of religious persecution
• restore autonomy

Question 15

What does Elizabeth to in response to the pacification of Ghent?

Answer 15

Gives the Dutch £100,000 loan+ treaty of Nonsuch

Question 16

After Don Juan accepted the pacification of Ghent in 1577, Spain invaded 6 months later with the Duke of Alba incharge. What did Elizabeth do in reponse to this?

Answer 16

She hires a mercenary John Casmir and gives him an army of 6,000 volenteers to help the Dutch(not in her name so not offically at war with Spain)

Question 17

What happened withe the Duke of Alençon in the Netherlands?

Answer 17

He comes to England and gets £70,000 from Elizabeth in 1581. He goes to the Netherlands in 1582 but fails and returns to France in 1583

Question 18

Which two people die in 1584?

Answer 18

• Duke of Alençon

- William of Orange(leader of the Dutch rebels)

Question 19

What happens at the end of 1584?

Answer 19

France Catholic league sign the treatynof Joinville to get Philip’s help against French Catholics

In 1585 the French king signs up to Catholic league’s aim of ridding France of Heresy

Question 20

When does Philip tell the Pope he intends to invade England?

Answer 20

Enf of 1585

Question 21

When does Elizabeth order Drake to attack Spain’s navy!

Answer 21

March 1587

Question 22

In Cadiz harbour, how much damage did drake do?

Answer 22

• destroyed 30 ships and the fleet’s provisions
• the Armada had to be delayed by a year to protect Spain from Drake as he started attacking ships coming back with treasure from the New world

Question 23

When does Elizabeth sign the treaty of Nonsuch ?

Answer 23

1585

Question 24

What does the treaty of Nonsuch say and cause?

Answer 24

Elangland would finance an army of 7400 troops under the Earl of Leicester

Put England at war with Spain

Question 25

Autonomy?

Answer 25

Right to self govern-people of on countries can manage their affairs

Question 26

When was the treaty of Nonsuch signed?

Answer 26

1585

Question 27

Whwn was the pacification of Ghent?

Answer 27

1576

Question 28

Why were sea beggers?

Answer 28

Dutch rebels that attacked spanish ships