Elizabeth's Foreign Policy

Question 1

What was the Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis?

Answer 1

Peace negotiations between England, France and Spain.

Question 2

What were the terms of the Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis?

Answer 2

Calais would be held by the French for 8 years and after that England would get it back or receive monetary compensation for its loss.

Question 3

Whose marriage proposal did Elizabeth decline?

Answer 3

Philip’s

Question 4

Why were the Guise family an issue?

Answer 4

They were allowing Scotland to be used as a base for French attacks on the English.

Question 5

When was the Treaty of Edinburgh signed?

Answer 5

1560

Question 6

What were the terms of the Treaty of Edinburgh?

Answer 6

French and English troops withdraw from Scotland

Question 7

When was the Treaty of Hampton Court signed?

Answer 7

1562

Question 8

What were the terms of the Treaty of Hampton Court?

Answer 8

Elizabeth promised loans and military aid to the Hugeunots.

Question 9

Where did Elizabeth seize control of and why?

Answer 9

Le Havre - tried to exchange it for Calais (failed)

Question 10

When was the Treaty of Blois?

Answer 10

1572

Question 11

What were the terms of the Treaty of Blois?

Answer 11

France abandoned claims of Mary Stuart to the throne of England.
England and Spain established a defensive league which was intended to prevent possibility of Spanish aggression against either.

Question 12

When was the Massacre of St Bartholomew’s day?

Answer 12

24th August 1572

Question 13

What happened at the Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Day?

Answer 13

3,000 Hugeunots killed

Question 14

Who else did Elizabeth have marriage negotiations with?

Answer 14

Duke of Anjou

Question 15

When did Henry IV convert to Catholicism?

Answer 15

1593

Question 16

Why was Elizabeth reluctant to send troops to support rebels in the Netherlands?

Answer 16

She didn’t like rebellion.
England lacked military muscle to face commander like Alva in battle.
Limited finances.

Question 17

When did Elizabeth take the Spanish bullion and why?

Answer 17

1568 - prevented the money from going to Alva

Question 18

When was Elizabeth ex-communicated?

Answer 18

1570

Question 19

When did the Spanish government go bankrupt?

Answer 19

1575

Question 20

Why was war with Spain not inevitable by 1573?

Answer 20

Representatives of Alva and Elizabeth had concluded a treaty (Convention of Nymegen) for the resumption of trade between Spain and England.
English government withdrew support for raids on Spanish shipping in the Indies.

Question 21

What was the tipping point for Elizabeth to intervene in the Netherlands?

Answer 21

Philip seizing English shipping in Spanish ports.

Question 22

When was the Treaty of Nonsuch signed?

Answer 22

1585

Question 23

What were the terms of the Treaty of Nonsuch?

Answer 23

Elizabeth would send 5,000 troops and 1,000 cavalry to the Netherlands towns of Brill and Flushing as security for the expenditure but rejected the offer of sovereignty over the provinces.

Question 24

Why did the Spanish decide to invade England?

Answer 24

Because of English involvement in the Netherlands.

Question 25

When was the Spanish Armada?

Answer 25

1588

Question 26

How many Spanish ships were seized or sunk by the English navy?

Answer 26

4

Question 27

How were most of the Spanish fleet destroyed?

Answer 27

In a storm off the coasts of Ireland and Scotland