Topic 1: Elizabethan England 1559 - 1603

Question 1

How many theatres were there in England in 1559?

Answer 1

0

Question 2

In what year was the first Theatre opened?

Answer 2

1576

Question 3

Why did Elizabeth and her government support the theatre after initially disliking it?

Answer 3

London had a population of 200,000 1600- entertainment kept them occupied and less likely to repel.

A plays content could be policed so that present the Queen and her government in a positive way.

Question 4

Which play presented the Tudors (including Elizabeth) in a positive way?

Answer 4

Richard III

Question 5

What were the 2 causes of poverty

Answer 5

The population rose by 43% between 1550 and 1600. Things like food and jobs became more difficult to get causing poverty.

Prices went up but wages stayed the same meaning people had less money.

Question 6

Why did poverty become worse in the 1590s?

Answer 6

Because there were poor harvests 1593-97 meaning there was less food and increasing prices.

Question 7

When was the Poor Law passed

Answer 7

1601

Question 8

How successful was the Poor Law?

Answer 8

Success - it helped preserve the social order and there were no rebellions

Less successful - Poverty continued to increase even after the Poor Law was introduced.

Question 9

Give four examples of when Puritans challenged Elizabeth and how Elizabeth dealt with them

Answer 9

1570 - Thomas Cartwright delivered a series of lectures and called for Bishops to be abolished. He was sacked from his position at Cambridge University

1577 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury was placed under house arrest for not banning prophesying.

300 ministers, most of whom had puritan views, were suspended for refusing to agree to the Acts introducing in the first 5 years of Elizabeth reign.

1593 - Seditious Secretaries Act made Puritanism and offence.

Question 10

When was the Northern Rebellion?

Answer 10

1569

Question 11

What success did the rebels have?

Answer 11

Two catholic nobles Northumberland and Westmorland started an uprising of 5000 rebels in the north and Mass was illegally held in Durham cathedral. In December they waited for Spanish assistance.

Question 12

What was the impact of the Northern uprising

Answer 12

Norfolk was released after 9 months in the tower of London.

Question 13

In what year did the Pope introduce a Bull excommunicating Elizabeth?

Answer 13

1570

Question 14

When was the Treason Act

Answer 14

1571

Question 15

When did the Jesuit missionaries start coming to England

Answer 15

1580

Question 16

What was the Eastland company?

Answer 16

A company formed in 1579 which traded Timber and rope with Scandinavia

Question 17

What was the East India company?

Answer 17

A company formed in 1600 that traded in the far East in silks, spices and tea.

Question 18

How did John Hawkins increase the tension between the Spanish and the English?

Answer 18

He lost was the Battle of San Juan de Ulua in 1568 increasing anti - Spanish feeling in the English court

Question 19

Who was Sir Francis Drake

Answer 19

A privateer, successful captain who circumnavigated the globe 1577-80

Question 20

Why was Drakes circumnavigation an achievement?

Answer 20

Drake returned with £400,000 of treasure with Elizabeth getting £200,000 of that, more than her entire income for a year.

Question 21

What was England’s role in the war between the Spanish and the the Spanish Netherlands? England sent 7000

Answer 21

In 1585 England sent 7000 troops under Dudley’s command to help the Dutch rebels. England and Spain were now at war

Question 22

When did the Armada leave

Answer 22

May 1588