52. The Impact Of War

Question 1

Who was England at war with in the 1590s?

Answer 1

Spain and Ireland

Question 2

What was the main European conflict up to the 1590s?

Answer 2

The Dutch rebellion against the Spanish who controlled the Netherlands

Question 3

Who did England support?

Answer 3

The Dutch rebels

Question 4

Where and when did riots break out in the Netherlands?

Answer 4

Flanders in 1566

Question 5

What did the rioting in Flanders lead to?

Answer 5

Many Flemings leaving Spain to settle in England

Question 6

Why were the Flemings good for royal income?

Answer 6

Had good manufacturing skills

Question 7

What did Spain claim?

Answer 7

A monopoly of trade with Spanish America, which England challenged

Question 8

What did the Dutch rebels turn to?

Answer 8

Piracy against Spanish ships that was blamed on the English

Question 9

What were the pirates called against Spanish ships?

Answer 9

Sea beggers

Question 10

What did elizabeth allow the sea beggers to use?

Answer 10

English ports

Question 11

What happened in 1568?

Answer 11

Elizabeth discovered that the pirates had forced Spanish ships carrying bullion to shelter in Plymouth and Southampton, and seized the gold

Question 12

How did the Spanish react to elizabeth taking the bullion?

Answer 12

They seized property belonging to Englishmen in the Netherlands

Question 13

What was a consequence of the Spanish tension?

Answer 13

Trade via the Netherlands ceases

Question 14

Why didn’t trade ceasing via the Netherlands not affect English merchants that badly?

Answer 14

English merchants could use La Rochelle in France and Hamburg in Germany

Question 15

When was the trade embargo lifted?

Answer 15

1573

Question 16

When did elizabeth finally expelled the sea beggers from English ports?

Answer 16

1572

Question 17

How did the Spanish treat English sailors?

Answer 17

Treated them harshly when they were in Spanish ships, breeding resentment

Question 18

Why did Spanish troops in Antwerp mutiny?

Answer 18

They hadn’t been paid, causing the ‘Spanish fury’

Question 19

When was the Spanish fury?

Answer 19

1576

Question 20

Who suffered from the Spanish fury?

Answer 20

Members of the merchant adventurers

Question 21

What was an advantage of tension with Spain?

Answer 21

the voyage Francis Drake undertook between 1577 and 1580

Question 22

What was the treaty of Nonsuch?

Answer 22

Committed elizabeth to providing an English force at an annual cost of £126,000

Question 23

When was the Treaty of Nonsuch?

Answer 23

1585

Question 24

How much was elizabeth’s expenditure in the first year of the war?

Answer 24

£160,000

Question 25

How much was Spanish cargo worth that Drake captured during his 1587 attack on Cadiz?

Answer 25

£140,000