The Elizabethan era

Question 1

Define Government

Answer 1

all of the people who help Elizabeth to run the country

Question 2

Who does the government include

Answer 2

Privy Council, Parliament and the local governments

Question 3

Who were the privy council

Answer 3

Elizabeth’s closest advisors. She met with them 2-3 times a week

Question 4

What was the parliament

Answer 4

Elected MPs and Lords - Elizabeth only called them 13 times in her whole reign

Question 5

What were the roles in the Local Government

Answer 5

Lord Lieutenant, Justice of the peace, Parish constable, overseer of the poor

Question 6

What did a Lord Lieutenant do

Answer 6

Told the Queen what was going on in their area and told the JPs what to do

Question 7

What did a Justice of the Peace do

Answer 7

Tried people for crimes and decide on punishments

Question 8

What did a Parish Constable do

Answer 8

Like a Policeman - arrested people

Question 9

What did an overseer of the poor do

Answer 9

Give out money to those who needed it

Question 10

What were causes of poverty

Answer 10

population growth, bad harvests, inflation, Fencing off land for sheep, rack renting.

Question 11

Where did they help the poor

Answer 11

London Hospitals such as St. Thomas’. In Norwich they charged taxes to help the poor

Question 12

What laws were passed to help the poor

Answer 12

Vagabonds act - punishes people caught begging, Act for the Relief of the poor - helps people find workor built Houses of Correction, Statute of Artificers - helped boys get an apprenticeship

Question 13

Name some terms of the religious settlement

Answer 13

Religion of England was Protestant, No Puritan ideas, Priests wore Vestments, Churches could have little decoration, Catholics were not to be prosecuted, Bible and Prayer book were in English

Question 14

What was the Act of Supremacy

Answer 14

Said that everyone who worked for the church had to agree that Elizabeth was head of the church. Only 3% of Priests didn’t agree to this

Question 15

What was the Act of Uniformity

Answer 15

Made sure all churches were doing the same thing

Question 16

How did Elizabeth check that everyone was following the Religious settlement

Answer 16

royal injunctions

Question 17

What was the Act of Exchange

Answer 17

Meant that Elizabeth could take the church’s money and land

Question 18

What is a recusant

Answer 18

someone who refuses to go to church

Question 19

when did Mary arrive in England

Answer 19

1568

Question 20

What was the Rebellion of the Northern Earls

Answer 20

1569 - Neville and Percy stormed the Durham Cathedral and tore up the English Prayer book and bible. Elizabeth sent her army and Neville and Percy were defeated.

Question 21

What was the Papal Bull

Answer 21

The Pope gave permission to Catholics to try and get Elizabeth off the throne

Question 22

What was the Ridolfii Plot

Answer 22

1571 - Ridolfi worked with Mary and the Pope to try and get Elizabeth off of the throne. Ridolfi was sent back to Italy

Question 23

What was the Throckmorton plot

Answer 23

1583 - He was working with the French. The plot was discovered by Elizabeth’s spy network

Question 24

What was the Babington Plot

Answer 24

1586 - Babington was writing coded letters to Mary talking of a plot to murder Elizabeth. Babington was executed.

Question 25

What happened to Mary after the Babington plot

Answer 25

she was executed in 1587 for imagining her majesty’s death. Her execution didn’t go well

Question 26

What were the causes of the Spanish Armada

Answer 26

Phillip II was Catholic, He had proposed to Elizabeth, Elizabeth had supported Protestant sin the Netherlands, Francis Drake stole £200 million in 3 years

Question 27

What went wrong for Spain

Answer 27

Francis Drake destroyed 37 of their ships, Duke of Medina Sidonia got seasick and had never sailed before, a storm blew them the wrong way, at the battle of gravelines the english destroyed 3 ships and killed 1,00 Spanish.

Question 28

What was the vestments controversy

Answer 28

Puritans refused to wear vestments. Elizabeth sacked 37 priests

Question 29

What did Thomas Cartwright do

Answer 29

made speeches saying that Elizabeth shouldn’t be head of the church. He was forced to leave England

Question 30

What did John Stubbs do

Answer 30

Wrote negative leaflets about the Queen. His right hand was cut off

Question 31

What were the Marprelate Tracts

Answer 31

Leaflets against Elizabeth. They were written anonomously

Question 32

What happened when Elizabeth tried to ban prophesying

Answer 32

Archbishop Grindal refused to. Elizabeth sacked him and appointed Archbishop Whitgift. He banned the meetings and sacked 300 Priests

Question 33

What was the Act against seditious secretaries

Answer 33

It said that if Elizabeth thought you were a separitist, you could be executed