Lifestyles Of The Rich And Poor

Question 1

What was the great rebuilding?

Answer 1

Where the rich/nobles redesigned their houses

Question 2

What were the remodelled home of the rich like?

Answer 2

It showed a clear divide between servants and owner

Question 3

Who were nobles and lords ?

Answer 3

Great landowners who earned an income of £6000 a year

Question 4

How many rich families owned 17% of all cultivated land?

Answer 4

50

Question 5

What did Elizabeth do to fuel the great rebuilding?

Answer 5

Royal Peogresses

Question 6

What did houses celebrate and how?

Answer 6

Symmetry an E of H shape

Question 7

What was a new feature of remodelled homes and what was it used for?

Answer 7

The long gallery was the entire length of the house and held windows and portraits.
The main function of the gallery was for feasts, entertainment, music, dancing and exercise

Question 8

What did fashionable Noblemen wear?

Answer 8

A doublet shirt, ruff, jerkin, breaches , leather shoes and stockings
Outfits were completed with jewellery and a satin and velvet hat and cloak

Question 9

What did Noble ladies wear?

Answer 9

Petticoat, gown, stockings, ruff, wide sleeves, bracelets, broaches and string of pearls.

Question 10

What did young noble man receive?

Answer 10

Home tutoring in French, Latin and Greek
Social etiquette was important and they had to learn table manners, along with hawking, hunting, fencing and dancing

Question 11

What did young noble ladies/women do?

Answer 11

Learnt how to supervise the daily runnings of the household

Question 12

What did the Yeomen and gentry aim to do

Answer 12

Copy the lifestyles of the nobility - on a smaller scale

Question 13

What did the gentry do with their land?

Answer 13

Rented out large areas to tenant farmer for a stable/regular income

Question 14

What were the gentry’s houses like?

Answer 14

At least 5 room, servant quarters, lowered ceilings to create an upstairs. Windows were widened and glass was inserted

Question 15

What was fashion like for gentry?

Answer 15

Taken very seriously and they copied rich but without expensive gold and silver threads

Question 16

What did sons of Gentry do?

Answer 16

Went to grammar schools to learn Latin and Greek
There were 360 schools by end of 1500s

Question 17

What did a day look like for gentry’s son?

Answer 17

Learnt to become a perfect gentleman
11 hour school day
Hunting, fencing, dancing and good table manners

Question 18

What did 15/16 year olds in Gentry do?

Answer 18

Go to Oxford of Cambridge to study maths theology, astronomy or geometry

Question 19

What was a poor man’s shelter?

Answer 19

Usually a one room cottage

Question 20

What were poor people’s cottages like?

Answer 20

Earth floor, thatched roof, no windows, shared with animals, minimal to no furniture( table or bench:

Question 21

What may craftsmen or farmers be able to do?

Answer 21

Save enough money to afford to build a new house with glazed windows and separate rooms

Question 22

What did a work day look like for the poor?

Answer 22

12 hours long
Bread and ale for lunch
6pm dinner - vegetable stew.as meat was too expensive

Question 23

What was fashion like for poor elements of society?

Answer 23

Basic leather shoes, wooden stockings, jacket, waistcoat, leather breeches and a felt hat
Many only had one outfir

Question 24

Did poor get any education?

Answer 24

Little to none
some were lucky to attend a parish school and learnt to read and write

Question 25

What was lesione like for poor people?

Answer 25

Gambling, cards, going to taverns, watching a strolling band or fishing

Question 26

What were vagrants?

Answer 26

Sturdy beggars who wandered across towns spreading disease

Question 27

How many types of vagabonds are there ?

Answer 27

23

Question 28

How many vagabonds were there wandering the countryside?

Answer 28

10,000

Question 29

What was a Abraham Man?

Answer 29

A vagabond who pretends to be mad, hoping this would result in charity donations

Question 30

What did a ruffler do?

Answer 30

A former soldier who survived by robbing, using threats or begging

Question 31

What did a counterfeit crank’s do

Answer 31

Dressed in tatty clothes and pretended to suffer from epilepsy- by sucking on soap they could fake foam at their mouth

Question 32

What was an angler?

Answer 32

Carried a long wooden stick and knocks on houses in the day seeking charity and seeing what they can steal. In the night return and use a hooked stick to reach through windows, to steal clothes and valuables

Question 33

What did a clapper dudgeon do?

Answer 33

Tied arsenic on their skin to make it bleed, hoping to attract sympathy while begging

Question 34

What were the 9 causes of poverty?

Answer 34

Rising population
Rising inflation
Rack renting
Bad harvest
Changes in the cloth industry
Rural depopulation
Change in farming methods
Closing of monasteries
Foreign wars

Question 35

What were vagabonds viewed as?

Answer 35

Idle and too lazy to find jobs

Question 36

What were the two categories of poor?

Answer 36

Impotent/undeserving poor - genuinely unable to work due to aged or hardship
Able bodied/ deserving poor - capable of working, unwilling to find work (should be encouraged or forced to find work)

Question 37

Why was Elizabeth’s reign a turning point for vagabonds?

Answer 37

Although they were punished it was the first time the government accepted responsibility for dealing with the poor

Question 38

What was the statute of artificers?

Answer 38

In 1563 Elizabeth created a maximum wage limit and a 7 year compulsory apprenticeship in craft or trade

Question 39

How did the Statute of Artificers help?

Answer 39

Created employment
Tied men to one area

Question 40

What was the vagabonds act?

Answer 40

In 1572
Severe penalties against vagrants
JPs had to keep a register at the local parish
Locals had to pay poor rate and provide shelter for elderly and sick

Question 41

How did the vagabonds act help?

Answer 41

Harsh punishment acted as a deterrent (whipping/death penalty for 3 offences)
Government accept some need support
Did nothing to remove causes of poverty

Question 42

What was the Act for Relief of the Poor?

Answer 42

In 1576
JPs built 2 houses of correction in each county
Anyone who refused help was sent to ine

Question 43

What was the Act for Relief of the Poor?

Answer 43

1598
4 overseers in each parish collected and supervised poor relief
Poor children learnt a trade or craft
Compulsory poor rate

Question 44

What was the Act for Punishment of Rogues?

Answer 44

In 1598
Houses of Correction set up
Digging was forbidden and punishment was whipping and sending to birth place

Question 45

What happened in 1601?

Answer 45

Elizabethan Poor law

Question 46

When was the Elizabethan Poor law made permanent?

Answer 46

1598

Question 47

How did this help tackle poverty?

Answer 47

It was governments responsibility to help the poor
Legal framework to tackle poverty

Question 48

What did the Houses of Corrections do?

Answer 48

Help contain poverty and vagrancy
Reduce risk of social unrest

Question 49

How did the Act for Relief of the Poor help?

Answer 49

It provided work
Punished those not working