Did Catholicism or Protestantism pose the bigger threat??

Question 1

Catholic threats

Answer 1

Gunpowder Plot
Growth of numbers
Rise of Jesuits
Links to Spain

Question 2

Puritan threats

Answer 2

Refused to attend Church services
Easy to spread beliefs due to large Protestant population
Lack of hierarchy threatened authority
Weren’t afraid to speak out against the Church and monarchy

Question 3

Why was the Gunpowder Plot a threat?

Answer 3

It would have removed key elements of the Political Nation as a precursor to the Catholic uprising

Question 4

Why was the growing number of Catholics a threat?

Answer 4

James I worried that ‘they might be able to force their principles upon us’

Question 5

Why was the rise of Jesuits a threat?

Answer 5

They threatened the authority and unity of the Church and the state

Question 6

Why was the Catholics’ links to Spain a threat?

Answer 6

Spain was a Catholic superpower

Question 7

Why was the Puritan’s lack of hierarchy a threat?

Answer 7

It was a threat to authority and unity

Question 8

What is an example of Puritans not being afraid to speak out against the Church and monarchy?

Answer 8

There were petitions and complaints against Bancroft’s canons