Education And Leisure

Question 1

3 features of education:

Answer 1

1) Boys and girls were educated seperately

2) Education was linked to one’s future role in life

3) By the end of Elizabeth’s reign, only 30% of men and 10% of women were literate.

Question 2

5 changes in education:

Answer 2

1) Petty schools increased for ages 4-7

2) 72 new grammar schools for sons of gentry, merchants and craftspeople. They learnt Latin, Greek, maths and scripture.

3) Increase in numbers going to university where they studied classics, divinity, philosophy and geometry.

4) Scholarships for poorer students to go to grammar school.

5) Only 1/3 students at Oxford and Cambridge were from the nobility and gentry.

Question 3

Leisure pursuits and their class (3)

Answer 3

1) Celebrating feast days - ALL

2) Gambling eg bear baiting or cock fighting - LOWER

3) Hunting - ALL

Question 4

3 features of the theatre

Answer 4

All classes went, poor stood as groundlings, rich had seats.

Famous playwrights included Marlow and Shakespeare.

Question 5

3 reasons for increase in poverty

Answer 5

Increasing population from 3.2M to 4.2M during Elizabeth’s reign

Decline of wool industry due to Spanish occupation of Netherlands after 1550

Inflation linked to Henry VIII’s debasement of the coinage

Question 6

2 laws relating to the poor?

Answer 6

1572 Vagabond Act: Vagabonds whipped and burned through the ear, MPs to raise poor rate to pay for the deserving poor

Act for Relief of the Poor 1576 - Towns had to find work for the able-bodied poor, those who did not accept were sent to the House of Correction.