GCSE History OCR B (The Elizabethans 1508 - 1603) Section 5: Daily lives and Popular Pastimes Flashcards
State 4 ideas that people in Industrial Britian thought about the “Golden Age” of Elizabethan England.
1) People wore fine clothes
2) Everyone had plenty of food
3) People got on well with each other
4) Cultural achievements, such as plays, were enjoyed by everyone
State 2 sports that people in Elizabethan England liked to watch.
Football, often played between villages.
Bear-baiting.
Explain what people did to celebrate the festival of the “Parish Ale.”
Several days of drinking, eating and dancing
What did people do to celebrate Christmas?
12 days of eating, drinking and carol-singing.
How did people celebrate “May Day”?
People danced around the May Pole and watched plays.
When was “Harvest Home” celebrated?
After the yearly crop harvest, usually at the end of August.
What was the most popular pastime for the Labouring Poor and the Middling Sort?
Heading to the alehouse (pub) to drink beer with freinds
What 2 illegal acts took place in alehouses?
Gambling and prostitution
What 3 things reduced the number of people participating in Popular Pastimes?
1) Parish ales stopped in many areas
2) Alehouses closed
3) Marypoles were pulled down
What 2 things did Puritan minsiters do to clamp down on the number of people participating in popular pastimes?
1) Preaching sermons attacking festivals such as Parish Ales
2) Pursuaded JPs to ban maypoles and introduce liscences for selling ale
State 4 motives for the Puritans attacking Popular Pastimes?
1) Protecting the sabbath
2) Stopping pagan practices
3) Preventing violent disorder
4) Preventing sex outside of marriage
State 3 things that Elizabethans believed that witches had the power to do.
1) Perform magic to cure illnesses
2) Control the actions of others
3) Recover stolen goods
Define the term “familiar”
A small animal such as a cat or toad that was assosiated with a witch.
What did the 1583 law against witchcraft establish about the punishments for witchcraft?
1) Death by hanging for using witchcraft to kill.
2) Imprisonment for damage to property.
State 3 reasons for the persecution of witches.
1) Tension between villages
2) Attacks on women
3) Puritans