Elizabeth Section 1 - Enforcement of Elizabeth’s religious settlement

Question 1

Before what year was opposition to the religious settlement limited?

Answer 1

1580

Question 2

What did the pope state in 1580?

Answer 2

That it would not be a sin for someone to kill Elizabeth, increasing the risk of assassination

Question 3

Who did England want to be their queen instead?

Answer 3

Mary Queen of Scots the catholic queen of England

Question 4

Who planned and invasion of England?

Answer 4

Philip of Spain

Question 5

How did Elizabeth’s government respond?

Answer 5

Persecuting catholics

Question 6

What did Elizabeth introduce for anyone who sheltered a catholic priest in 1585?

Answer 6

Death penalty

Question 7

What did a new law do in 1593?

Answer 7

Banned catholics from travelling more than five 5 miles from their home

Question 8

What did Elizabeth’s government successfully do to catholic resistance?

Answer 8

They successfully crushed it
There were 3 million catholics in 1588
By 1605 there were 40,000