Elizabeth

Question 1

Name Elizabeth’s Parents.

Answer 1

Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn

Question 2

Who was monarch before Elizabeth?

Answer 2

Mary I

Question 3

What year did Elizabeth become Queen?

Answer 3

1558

Question 4

What Religion was Elizabeth? What religion was Mary I?

Answer 4

Elizabeth - Protestant
Mary I - Catholic

Question 5

Name 3 problems facing her on ascension.

Answer 5

Gender, Religion, War with France, Marriage

Question 6

How big was her privy council?

Answer 6

19 members = Smaller

Question 7

Why was not having an heir a problem?

Answer 7

Future instability

Question 8

Why was war with France a problem on her ascension?

Answer 8

Too expensive and debt was building

Question 9

Why was her gender a problem?

Answer 9

Never been a female monarch

Question 10

Why did some Catholics see her as illegitimate?

Answer 10

Henry VIII branded her as illegitimate

Question 11

Who was her Secretary of State?

Answer 11

William Cecil

Question 12

Why was there financial difficulties in 1558? How was it solved?

Answer 12

Crown Debt + War with France
Sold £300,000 of Crown land

Question 13

Two events to do with Religion before Elizabeth’s ascension.

Answer 13

Reformation + Mary burning Protestants

Question 14

When did Elizabeth pass the religious settlement?

Answer 14

1559

Question 15

What was Elizabeth’s tittle in the church?

Answer 15

Supreme Governor

Question 16

2 things that appealed to Catholics in the religious settlement.

Answer 16

Church decorating allowed, Vestments & Clergymen could marry

Question 17

2 changes that appealed to Protestants.

Answer 17

Bible in English + Pope no longer head of church

Question 18

Why did puritans oppose the religious settlement?

Answer 18

Didn’t like Elizabeth head of church

Question 19

What were Catholics who refused to go to church called?

Answer 19

Recusants

Question 20

What year was Elizabeth excommunicated?

Answer 20

1570 via Papal Bull

Question 21

What year was the Revolt of the Northern Earls?

Answer 21

1569

Question 22

Who led the Revolt of the Northern Earls?

Answer 22

Westmorland + Northumberland

Question 23

Give a piece of evidence to show Northern Earls was political?

Answer 23

Came from North where Elizabeth took a lot of power

Question 24

What year was the Ridolfi Plot?

Answer 24

1571

Question 25

Who was executed after the Ridolfi Plot?

Answer 25

Duke of Norfolk

Question 26

What was the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre?

Answer 26

Massacre of Protestants by Catholics in France

Question 27

What was goal of all the plots?

Answer 27

Kill Elizabeth + Replace with Mary

Question 28

Why did all the revolts fail?

Answer 28

No support, Spies knew about them already

Question 29

How did MQS and Anthony Babington communicate?

Answer 29

Coded letters in beer barrels

Question 30

Who was Elizabeth’s spymaster?

Answer 30

Francis Walsingham

Question 31

What act allowed MQS to be executed?

Answer 31

Bond of Association

Question 32

Why was there tension between England and Spain?

Answer 32

Marriage Proposal, Religion, Pirating (Drake)

Question 33

What is privateering?

Answer 33

Licensed Piracy

Question 34

What the name of the treaty in the Netherlands?

Answer 34

Treaty of Nonsuch

Question 35

What was the ‘singeing of kings of Spains beard’?

Answer 35

Drake destroying Spanish Ships

Question 36

In what year was the Spanish Armada?

Answer 36

1588

Question 37

Who led Spain in the Spanish Armada?

Answer 37

Duke of Medina Sidonia

Question 38

3 reasons why the Spanish Armada failed.

Answer 38

Weather, Fireships, Spanish Weak Leader

Question 39

What was the difference in education between the upper, middle and lowest classes?

Answer 39

Upper - Home schooled Middle - Grammar Schools Poor - Petty Schools

Question 40

What were the differences between leisure activities between rich and poor?

Answer 40

Both - Theatre Poor - Football + Bloodsports Rich - Tennis + Jousting

Question 41

How did theatres reflect class?

Answer 41

Matched great chain of being

Question 42

Why did some oppose theatres?

Answer 42

Spreading of theatre + Crime Association

Question 43

What were enclosures?

Answer 43

Private selling of farmland

Question 44

What was rack renting?

Answer 44

Landlords charging too much much for land

Question 45

Why did poverty increase during Elizabeth’s reign?

Answer 45

Population increase Closure if monasteries Inflation Collapse of wool trade Rack renting Enclosure

Question 46

What is the difference between deserving and undeserving poor?

Answer 46

Deserving - Deserved help Undeserving - Didn’t deserve help

Question 47

What were same names of vagabonds?

Answer 47

Angler, Clapper Dudgeon, Counter-fit Crank

Question 48

What were houses of correction?

Answer 48

Where the undeserving poor were sent

Question 49

What act was established in 1572?

Answer 49

Vagabond act

Question 50

Why did exploration increase during Elizabeth’s reign?

Answer 50

Inventions, Rivalry, Money

Question 51

How did the English benefit from exploration?

Answer 51

Money + Resources (Tobacco + Potatoes)

Question 52

When did Drake circumnavigate the world?

Answer 52

1578

Question 53

Why did Raleigh’s colonisation attempts fail?

Answer 53

Don’t get on with indigenous people Poor Leadership Poor Planning