History: Elizabeth I

Question 1

What were the five main problems he faced as the new queen of England?

Answer 1

1) Religion
2) Marriage
3) Mary, Queen of Scots
4) Her appearance
5) starvation

Question 2

Expand in Religion and what was her solution to the problem?

Answer 2

• England suffered under Mary’s Catholic rule
• many people were outraged
• she wanted England to have a fair religion
Soultion: she created the middle way to please bother Catholics and a Protestants

Question 3

Expand in Marriage and what was her solution to the problem ?

Answer 3

• England desperately needs an heir to avoid war
• Henry VIII went through a lot of trouble trying to get one
Solution: she stayed single

Question 4

Expand in Mary, Queen of Scots and what was her solution to the problem?

Answer 4

• Mary was her cousin
• She was catholic
• she fled Scotland after the murder if her husband
• some people might support her claim to the throne
Solution: keep her imprisoned in England

Question 5

Expand in Her appearance and what was her solution to the problem ?

Answer 5

• as she got older, her hair went grey, her teeth tarted to rot and she had wrinkles on her forehead
• the strength of a country was judged by the beauty and good health if the Queen
Solution : she painted beautiful portraits of herself

Question 6

Expand in Starvation as what was her allusion to the problem?

Answer 6

• there were food shortages in he country
• there were a large number of people who were unemployed and begging on the street
• people were dying because of this
Solution: she passed extra laws against beggars to stop any trouble

Question 7

Who were the three people Elizabeth could marry?

Answer 7

1) King Phillip of Spain
2) King Charles of France
3) Robert Dudley

Question 8

What were the good and bad points of marrying King Phillip of Spain?

Answer 8

Good : 
• create alliance with Spain
• rich and powerful country
• he promised to spend more time who her than with Mary
Bad: 
• catholic
• he wants to rule England
• encouraged Mary to burn all Protestants

Question 9

What are the good and bad points if marrying King Charles of France?

Answer 9

Good: 
• create alliance with France
• second most powerful country 
• end wars with France 
The two countries are close together 
Bad: 
• catholic 
• English people might rebel because a French king is unpopular 
He wanted her  to visit him but his might cause rebellion whilst she's not in England

Question 10

What are the good and bad points of marrying Robert Dudley?

Answer 10

Good: 
• Protestant 
• worked as an advisor for Edward
• from a wealthy family
• he has experience in ruling a country
He loves Elizabeth
• people will respect and trust him 
Bad: 
•can't create alliance with other countries 
• he may have murdered his own wife to propose to her 
• her reputation would be brought down

Question 11

What are the good and bad points of not marrying at all?

Answer 11

Good:
• no wars would start with other countries
Bad:
• people might rebel
• can’t create alliance with any countries
• people might think she’s weak because he’s a women
• no heir to the throne

Question 12

What was her choice of marriage in the end?

Answer 12

She stayed single

Question 13

When was the Spanish Armada ?

Answer 13

1588

Question 14

What happened in 12th July?

Spanish Armada

Answer 14

The Spanish Armada set sail

Question 15

What happened in 19th July?

Spanish Armada

Answer 15

English saw the Spanish arriving

Question 16

What happened in 21st July?

Spanish Armada

Answer 16

English ships chased the Spanish up the channel

Question 17

What happened in 27th July?

Spanish Armada

Answer 17

Spanish anchored near Calais
English sent burning fire ships into Spanish ships
They panicked and sailed away

Question 18

What happened in 28th July?

Spanish Armada

Answer 18

English attacked Spanish near grave lines

Question 19

What happened in 29th July?

Spanish Armada

Answer 19

Spanish soldiers left the Netherlands

Question 20

What happened in 30th July?

Spanish Armada

Answer 20

Spanish tried to sail done by going North around Scotland

Question 21

What happened in August?

Spanish Armada

Answer 21

Many Spanish ships were wrecked due to the storms and bad weather

Question 22

What happened in September?

Spanish Armada

Answer 22

Only half the Armada returned to Spain

Question 23

How long did she rule England for? ( years )

Answer 23

1558-1603

Question 24

What were the four problems or mistakes for Spanish?

Answer 24

• they were already fighting a religious war
• Phillip picked the wrong commander. Duke of Medina Sidonia, he was the richest man in Europe but he had no experience and he was forced to dirge job
• they ignored an opportunity to attack when the tide was in the English Ships’ way
• they were tightly packed in a crescent shape but if one boat turns, other boats would crash into each other

Question 25

What were the skills and tactics for English?

Answer 25

• they had two commanders, Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake
•Lord Howard was Elizabeth’s cousin and had no experience
Sir Francis Drake had lots if experience and men loved him
• they split their ships, they had to go West so they could get behind the Spanish but they had to fight against the wind to surprise them from the back
• they fired canons continuously
• they stayed away from the Spanish ships and sailed in single file
• they set Spanish ships on fire and scared them

Question 26

Who won the Spanish Armada?

Answer 26

England

Question 27

What was Elizabeth’s middle way?

Answer 27

1) Queen is supreme governed of the church in England
2) bishops must be controlled by the queen
3) people must have their own faith but only properly ordained priests can preach in church
4) the bread and wine don’t change but the Christ is present in a spiritual way
5) a person should not pray to saints. There should be no statues of saints in churches but people can celebrate saints days
6) services and the bible should be in English
7) a person is saved by faith but a peeps in with faith will do work because it pleases god
8) churches must be kept in good repair and clean. They can be decorated. There can be music
Priests should wear special robes
9) priests can marry but Elizabeth didn’t really approve of married Priests

Question 28

Date, age, reason, how powerful and message of Portrait 1

Answer 28

Date: 1546
Age: 13
Reason: sent as a presets to Edward to support his religious changes
How powerful: not very, young and nervous, dresses up to look older
Message : not going to plot against him, not to be associated with Mary( book, bible ), red hair is empathised

Question 29

Date, age, reason, how powerful and message of Portrait 2

Answer 29

Date: 1558
Age: 25
Reason: her coronation
How powerful: quite powerful, young 
Message: welathy( gold ), youth (pearls ), she's single ( hair down )

Question 30

Date, age, reason, how powerful and message of Portrait 3

Answer 30

Date: 1588
Age: 55
Reason: celebrate winning the Armada
How powerful: strong, powerful, rich
Message: jewelled globe➡️North America, commander( sits in galleon )

Question 31

Date, age, reason, how powerful and message portrait 4

Answer 31

Date: 1600
Age: 67
Reason: some unrest in the North began to see her as a week old women with no heir
How powerful: powerful, rich, pretty, quite young
Message: she sees( eyes ),
•youth( pearls ),
•peace ( rainbows ),
•youth ( bridal hair ),
•love for her people ( heart ),
•knowledge ( angles wings ),
•wisdom ( serpent ),
• wisdom ( jewelled globe ),
•provide food for her people ( headdress ),
•everyone hears her ( ears ),
men will fight for her ( jewelled glove )