The last years of Elizabeth Flashcards
Elizabeth allowed the Cecil group to take over court which angered whom?
Essex and the younger nobles
Though England enjoyed broadly effective government during the most of Elizabeth’s reign, there was a decline in royal authroity and the quality of administration during what decade?
1590s
What year was the Earl of Essex executed for treason?
1601
Despite Essex’s failed rebellion, by what dare was a broad political unity achieved?
1603
Why was the Queen’s reputation tarnished by the end of her reign?
as she appeared out of touch with the aspirations of a younger generation who looked forward to the accession of a king
What type of cottage industries clearly rose in production throughout Elizabeth’s reign which suggests that domestic demand was thriving?
nail making, soap and brewing
England remained socially decided with huge difference in living standards between the wealthy few and the poor majority. When was the only decade in which there was as subsistence criss where it is known there were deaths from starvation?
the 1590s
Between what years in the 90s was there successive harvest failings/
1594-97
When were two Poor Laws made?
1598 and 1601
What was set up in the early 1600’s which would later lead to commercial domination?
trading companies to challenge the domination of the Spanish, Portugesus and Dutch
How were English Catholics fundamentally divided?
between a majority who tried to accommodate conflicting loyalties to the Crown and faith and a minority who identified wholeheartedly with the papal excommunication of 1570
Puritanism as a dynamic movement had faded by the end of the century, what happened to Separatism?
this virtually disappeared, though never a numerically song movement
