Elizabeth I

Question 1

What was the Elizabethan Settlement?

Answer 1

The establishment of the Anglican Church, as a national church, independent from Rome, and monarch as head

Question 2

How was the Anglican Church established?

Answer 2

Act of Supremacy 1559

Question 3

How was the Elizabethan Settlement celebrated?

Answer 3

social stability and cultural flourishing

Question 4

How did the bourgeoise develop?

Answer 4

enterprising bourgeouise

Question 5

Why did Elizabeth I carefully raise taxes?

Answer 5

She feared trouble with the new bourgeoise

Question 6

What was becoming increasingly the cultural center in England?

Answer 6

not the church anymore but rather university

Question 7

What “culture” was characteristic for that period?

Answer 7

Wordly Culture

1. enjoy yourself
2. rotten morals
3. less religious poetry
4. decrease of religious importance
5. individual is now imporant

Question 8

Why were the Spanish interested in England?

Answer 8

England was at that very rich

Question 9

What part of Elizabeth’s life became a political problem?

Answer 9

her legitimacy to the throne and her marriage approach

Question 10

Short description of Mary Stuart

Answer 10

1. married to Francois
2. 1561- returned to calvanist (protestant) Scotland
3. 1568- escaped to England (her cousin)
4. Elizabeth locked Mary in a castle
5. 1587- Elizabeth executed Mary
6. 1588- English Spanish War

Question 11

What function did Mary Stuart have for the Spanish?

Answer 11

Spanish hope: Mary Stuart would marry King Phillip

attempts to assassinate Elizabeth I

Question 12

What were the results of the Spanish English War?

1. navy
2. companies
3. nation
4. religion
5. pride

Answer 12

1. English naval superiority
2. chartered companies founded
3. nationalism (“chosen people”)
4. religion –> Anti Catholicsm
5. sense of bourgeoise pride (why absolutism?)