Elizabethan Society + Rebellion

Question 1

Under Eliz, what percentage lived in absolute poverty?

Answer 1

10% rurally, 20% urban

Question 2

Which members of the nobility led the Northern Rebellion?

Answer 2

Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland

Question 3

What was the Poor Law of 1576?

Answer 3

Attempt to create a national system of poor relief, financed and administered locally

Question 4

Where did food riots take place in the 1590s?

Answer 4

London, Kent, Hampshire and Norfolk

Question 5

What was a vagabond?

Answer 5

A person with no home or job who wandered from place to place

Question 6

How many Dukes were there under Eliz?

Answer 6

4 - Somerset, Northumberland, Suffolk and Norfolk

Question 7

What was a consequence of the Elizabethan vagabond act?

Answer 7

Migration of poor from rural to urban areas

Question 8

What happened to the gap between the rich and poor under Eliz?

Answer 8

It widened

Question 9

When was the Elizabethan subsistence crisis?

Answer 9

1595-6

Question 10

What was the Statute of Artificers?

Answer 10

1563, an attempt to sort out the issue of high wages

Question 11

How did the population change under Eliz?

Answer 11

Rose from 3 million to 4 million

Question 12

In what years did Ireland rebel under Eliz?

Answer 12

1569-73, 1579-82 (not counting Tryone)

Question 13

Which unpaid people did Eliz rely on to administer local justice?

Answer 13

Justices of the Peace

Question 14

What was Elizabeth proclaimed in 1560?

Answer 14

Supreme Governor of the Church of Ireland

Question 15

Who had to raise the rates for and administer the 1601 Poor Law?

Answer 15

Individual parishes

Question 16

When did Elizabeth grow gravely ill?

Answer 16

1562, leading to a rush to get her married by Parliament.