Elizabethean England

Question 1

What year was elizabeth crowned

Answer 1

1558

Question 2

What was the problem with elizabeths legitamacy

Answer 2

Her mother, anne boelyn was executed by Henry VIII

Question 3

Why was elizabeth not being married a problem

Answer 3

People thought a woman needed a man to help make her decisions. She also needed an heir to the throne

Question 4

What problem did elizabeth face with religon

Answer 4

Elizabeth was a protestant and the country was already catholic. There was a division between religons

Question 5

What was englands power like compared to france and spain

Answer 5

Very weak

Question 6

What religon was france and spain

Answer 6

Catholic

Question 7

What was the financial problems elizabeth faced

Answer 7

England had fought costly wars before Elizabeth became Queen. Crown was £300,000 in debt when she took the throne.

Question 8

What was the “middle way”

Answer 8

It was religous rules that both catholics and protestants could accept

Question 9

What two acts made up the religous settlement

Answer 9

Act of supremacy
Act of uniformity

Question 10

What religous settlement rules benefited protestants

Answer 10

Bibles written in english
Control of pope ended

Question 11

Religous settlement rules that benefited catholics

Answer 11

They could still believe in transubstantiation
Images allowed in churches

Question 12

What year was the religous settlement

Answer 12

1559

Question 13

What problems did puritans cause to the settlements

Answer 13

The main problems were with the use of crucifixes and vestments
Elizabeth had to stop using crucifixes, but vestments remained the same

Question 14

Who were the recusants

Answer 14

Catholics that refused to go to elizabethan church services. Mostly Influenced by the pope.

Question 15

What problems did mary queen of scotts cause to elizabeths reign

Answer 15

Many Catholics saw Mary Queen of Scots as the
legitimate monarch (she was Elizabeth’s second
cousin and had a direct link to the throne). Mary
arrived in England in 1568 after the Protestant
Scottish Nobles revolted after the suspicious death
of her husband.

Question 16

What year was the revolt of the northern earls

Answer 16

1569

Question 17

What was the causes of the northern revolt

Answer 17

. Northern nobility tended to remain Catholic.
. Found their influence reduced under Elizabeth
. disliked her ‘favourites’ like Dudley and Cecil

Question 18

What was the plan for the northern earls revolt

Answer 18

Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland would raise an army and take control of Durham and would then march south to join the Duke of Norfolk’s forces
Several thousand Spanish troops would land in Hartlepool to support the rebels
Mary Queen of Scots would be freed, married to the Duke Norfolk and placed on the throne

Question 19

What did the northern earls do in the church

Answer 19

They celebrated a full catholic mass

Question 20

Who led the revolt of the northern earls

Answer 20

Neville, earl of westmorland

Question 21

How did the rebellion of the northern earls affect treatment of the catholics

Answer 21

They were treated harsher

Question 22

What pope excommunicated elizabeth

Answer 22

Pope pius VI

Question 23

What year was the ridolfi plot

Answer 23

1571

Question 24

Who was robert ridolfi

Answer 24

A banker, one of the pope’s spies.

Question 25

What was the events of the ridolfi plot

Answer 25

The plan was for English Catholics to overthrow Elizabeth with help from Spain, for Mary to marry Norfolk and the country to be returned to Catholicism

Question 26

What were the results of the ridolfi plot

Answer 26

Plot reinforced threat posed by Mary and by Spain

Question 27

Why was mary executed

Answer 27

• Act for the Preservation of the Queen’s Safety barred Mary from the succession and allowed for her to be put on trial • Walsingham had provided clear evidence that she was involved in plotting against Elizabeth • Rumours of an imminent attack from Spain reinforced the threat that Mary posed.

Question 28

Impact of marys execution

Answer 28

it shows elizabeths new harsh treatment of Catholics. An important threat removed. Catholics angered by the execution, they have now lost their hope of Catholic monarch

Question 29

What was the reason of rivalry between england and spain

Answer 29

Different religous beliefs Execution of mary Elizabeth refused to mary phillip English support of dutch rebels

Question 30

What was poor childrens education like

Answer 30

No formal education. They learned from their families working on the land, or in the home. They needed to bring in a wage for the family.

Question 31

What education did well of girls get

Answer 31

Dame schools or educated at home by mothers. Less academic-based work than boys

Question 32

What education did well of boys get

Answer 32

Petty schools and grammar schools.

Question 33

What education did upper class boys get

Answer 33

Private tutors Universities (oxford or cambridge) Inns of court - trained lawyers

Question 34

What education did upper class girls get

Answer 34

Private tutor and then sent to another noble household to complete education.

Question 35

What sort of pastimes did the nobility do

Answer 35

hunting, hawking, fishing, fencing, real tennis

Question 36

What pastimes did working people do

Answer 36

Working people – football was a lower class game – could be very violent and had no rules as such

Question 37

What were the spectator sports

Answer 37

Spectator sports such as bear-baiting and cock-fighting were popular – gambling was also very common

Question 38

What year was the throckmorton plot

Answer 38

1583

Question 39

What was the plan of the throckmorton plot

Answer 39

The plot aimed to free Mary, Queen of Scots, under house arrest in England since 1568, make her queen in place of Elizabeth, and legally restore Roman Catholicism.

Question 40

How did the throckmorton plot end up

Answer 40

The plots was uncovered. Letters found at Throckmorton’s house and he was tortured and executed in 1584

Question 41

What year was the babington plot

Answer 41

1586

Question 42

What was the plans for the babington plot (tons more than others)

Answer 42

Sir Anthony Babington, became the centre of a plot to assassinate Elizabeth and place Mary on the throne. Coded letters were discovered between Babington and Mary, offering to kill Elizabeth and keeping her informed of the progress of plot.

Question 43

How did the babington plot end up

Answer 43

An advisor intercepted the letters and deciphered the codes within them. Babington and accomplices executed

Question 44

What was the intentions of the ridolfi plot

Answer 44

Murder elizabeth with a spanish invasion amd put mary queen of scots on the throne

Question 45

What was the intentions of the throckmorton plot

Answer 45

Duke of guise, marys cousin, wanted to Invade and overthrow elizabeth