Elizabeth - Section 3

Question 1

What is a Jesuit?

Answer 1

Catholic priests who were specially trained to convert people back to Catholicism

Question 2

What year did Jesuits arrive in England?

Answer 2

1580s

Question 3

Who was the leader of the Jesuits?

Answer 3

Edmund Campion

Question 4

Where did Jesuits hide?

Answer 4

Priest holes

Question 5

Who was Francis Walsingham?

Answer 5

A privy councillor who worked to eliminate Jesuits

Question 6

How did Francis Walsingham attempt to eliminate Jesuits?

Answer 6

Employed priest hunters

Question 7

What year did Edmund Campion get captured?

Answer 7

1581

Question 8

What happened to Edmund Campion when he got captured?

Answer 8

Hung drawn and quartered

Question 9

Who captured Campion?

Answer 9

Francis Walsingham

Question 10

How was Mary Queen of Scots related to Elizabeth?

Answer 10

Cousin

Question 11

What year was Elizabeth imprisoned in England?

Answer 11

1568

Question 12

3 reasons why Marys presence in England was a threat to Elizabeth?

Answer 12

1. Mary had a strong claim to the throne of England
2. Mary was a figurehead for Catholic Rebellion
3. Mary had powerful foreign supporters

Question 13

Why did Elizabeth refuse to execute Mary?

Answer 13

Mary was her cousin and she didn’t want to execute another queen

Question 14

What year was the Throckmorton Plot?

Answer 14

1583

Question 15

Who made the Throckmorton Plot?

Answer 15

A young Catholic Noble who plotted with the French

Question 16

Who found out about the Throckmorton Plot?

Answer 16

Francis Walsingham’s spies

Question 17

What was the Throckmorton Plot?

Answer 17

Included invading England to put Mary on the Throne

Question 18

Was the Throckmorton Plot a fail or success? What happened to the planner (Throckmorton)

Answer 18

Fail - he was tortured and executed

Question 19

When was the Babington plot?

Answer 19

1586

Question 20

What was the Babington plot?

Answer 20

Babington communicated with Mary whilst she was in prison by hiding coded letters in beer barrels

Question 21

Who discovered the Babington plot?

Answer 21

Francis Walsingham - he waited for proof

Question 22

What year was Mary executed?

Answer 22

1587

Question 23

What caused the Spanish Armada to take place?

Answer 23

The Anglo-Spanish war

Question 24

What year did the Spanish Armada take place?

Answer 24

1588

Question 25

4 causes of the rivalry with Spain

Answer 25

1. Elizabeth had refused to marry Prince Philip
2. Francis Drake stole gold from Spanish ships and Elizabeth Knighted him
3. Philips supported Catholic plots against Elizabeth
4. The execution of Mary Queen of Scots angered Philip

Question 26

Who won the Spanish Armada?

Answer 26

The English

Question 27

What was the original plan for the Armada?

Answer 27

Spanish would go to the Netherlands to pick up 20,000 Spanish soldiers before invading England and reintroducing Catholicism

Question 28

What actually happened to the Armada when compared to the plan?

Answer 28

The Armada never landed in England and only 80 ships made it back to Spain

Question 29

Why did the Spanish fail?

Answer 29

The leader of the Armada was inexperienced and got sea sick

Question 30

Was the weather on England’s side?

Answer 30

The wind blew the Spanish ships north and with this strong wind trapped and sunk many ship in rocks