Elizabeth 2

Question 1

What was the royal court?

Answer 1

A group of nobles and privy councillors who surrounded the queen

Question 2

What was entertainment like at the court?

Answer 2

It showed wealth as they had jousting tournaments, dances and plays

Question 3

How did Elizabeth control the royal court

Answer 3

She used a system of patronage

Question 4

Who granted positions of power e.g the nobles

Answer 4

Elizabeth did

Question 5

What did patronage mean?

Answer 5

Power was based on personal relationships with the queen

Question 6

What were the privy council?

Answer 6

Elizabeth’s most trusted courtiers who met her daily to give her advice on important issues.

Question 7

Who did Elizabeth appoint as Secretary of State

Answer 7

William Cecil

Question 8

How did Elizabeth not have full control?

Answer 8

Cecil manipulated her into executing Mary queen of Scot’s

Question 9

Who was Elizabeth’s favourite member of privy council?

Answer 9

Robert devereux, earl of Essex

Question 10

How did Robert become egotistical and rash?

Answer 10

1598: reached for his sword when arguing with Elizabeth

Question 11

How did his behaviour lead to his execution?

Answer 11

1601: plotted an armed rebellion to remove Elizabeth and make James of Scotland the king

Question 12

How did the death of William Cecil have rivalry?

Answer 12

Earl of Essex didn’t respect Elizabeth and her authority as she was a woman

Question 13

What did the local government do?

Answer 13

Each county was controlled by a lord lieutenant, appointed by the queen.

Question 14

What was their job?

Answer 14

They kept the queen and privy council informed of what was happening and organised a local army.

Question 15

What were JP’s responsible for?

Answer 15

Law and Order

Question 16

How many JP’s were in each county?

Answer 16

40 in each county

Question 17

What else were the JP’s responsible for?

Answer 17

-Collecting taxes and fines
-Enforcing the Poor Law
-Judging court cases

Question 18

What was parliament like?

Answer 18

MP’s voted to give their consent for new laws and taxes

Question 19

How did parliament pose serious threat to Elizabeth’s authority?

Answer 19

Elizabeth needed their permission to raise taxes which gave MP’s power

Question 20

What did puritan MP’s do with their power?

Answer 20

They pushed Elizabeth to marry a Protestant by making speeches

Question 21

What did puritans do to push Elizabeth?

Answer 21

• remove archbishops and bishops and allow elected committees to control churches
  -stop wearing priests wearing vestments
• give MP’s freedom of speech

Question 22

How did Elizabeth control parliament?

Answer 22

She only called them to meet 13 times in her 45 year reign

Question 23

How did Elizabeth control MP’s?

Answer 23

She gave them limited freedom of speech by banning the discussion of religion

Question 24

Who did Elizabeth imprison in 1593?

Answer 24

She imprisoned Peter Wentworth after he demanded she name a Protestant heir

Question 25

How else did she punish opposition?

Answer 25

She had John Stubbs hand (a puritans MP) chopped off in 1579 for criticising her marriage to a catholic

Question 26

Why did Elizabeth use propaganda?

Answer 26

To show herself as a powerful and popular monarch

Question 27

What did the portraits of Elizabeth show?

Answer 27

Emphasised her power and had no signs of her being weak

Question 28

Why did she go on regular progresses?

Answer 28

So everybody could see her

Question 29

What did she do on her progress?

Answer 29

Elizabeth showed off her wealth and spoke with the ordinary people she passed.

Question 30

Why did Elizabeth never visit the north or west?

Answer 30

As they were predominantly catholic areas