England In 1558

Question 1

What are key features of Elizabeth’s government?

Answer 1

1) The Court
2) Justices of the Peace
3) Lord Lieutenants
4) The Privy Council
5) Parliment

Question 2

What was the Court in Elizabethan England?

Answer 2

• It was made up of noblemen who acted as the monarch’s advisors and helped display her wealth and power.
• Members of the Court were also members of the Privy Council

Question 3

What was the Justices of the Peace in Elizabethan England?

Answer 3

Large landowners who were appointed by the government that kept law and order locally. They also heard court cases.

Question 4

What were the Lord Lieutenants in Elizabethan England?

Answer 4

Noblemen,appointed by the government, who governed English counties and raised the local militia

Question 5

What was the Privy Council in Elizabethan England?

Answer 5

Members of the nobility who helped govern the country.

Question 6

What was the Parliment in Elizabethan England?

Answer 6

Advised Elizabeth’s government, made up of House of Lords and House of Commons.

Question 7

What did the countryside consist of?

Answer 7

• The nobility
• The gentry
• The Yeomen Farmers (small land farmers)
• The Tenant Farmers (rented land to farm)
• The Landless and Labouring poor
• Homeless and Vagrants

Question 8

What did the towns consist of?

Answer 8

• Merchants
• Professionals
• Buisness Owners
• Craftsmen
• Unskilled labourers and the unemployed

Question 9

What problems did Elizabeth face as a Monarch?

Answer 9

1) Young and inexperienced
2) Her government needed money
3) Her legitamacy
4) Religious issues (she was protestant)
5) Unmarried
6) Needed support of parliment to pass laws

Question 10

What were Elizabeth’s strengths?

Answer 10

1) She was confident and charasmatic
2) She was well educated
3) She was protestant which was heavily growing
4) She was resilient

Question 11

What were the financial weakness in 1558?

Answer 11

• The Crown was in debt
• Previous monarch (elizabeth’s sister) sold land to pay for war with France
• Elizabeth needed money to remain secure on the throne
• Inflation

Question 12

How could Monarch’s raise money?

Answer 12

• Rent
• Tax from trade
• Special additional tax
• Profits of Justice (fines)
• Loans

Question 13

What did Elizabeth do to help the finiacial problem?

Answer 13

• Hoarded her income and cut her household expenses by half
• She sold Crown lands

Question 14

What where the challenges abroad in 1588?

Answer 14

• The French Threat
• France ended war with Spain
• War was an expensive buisness
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