Topic Three Key Words QE Flashcards
Baiting
Deliberately making animals fight
Grammar School
Private schools set up to teach boys from well off families
Petty School
Price basic literacy and mathematics before moving on to grammar schools
Poverty
To be poor
Enclosure
Replacing large open fields with smaller ones owned by one person
Francis Drake
Famous explorer and sea captain
Roanoke Island
Location of the second colony
Algonquin
Name of the native tribe that tried to help the colonists
Idle poor
Those who chose not to work
Mystery plays
Plays that brought to life stories in the Bible. Very popular with the Catholic church
Humanist
People who believe that learning was impirtant in its own right
Circumnavigate
To sail around
Poor relief
Money given to the deserving poor
Vagabond
Homeless people without jobs who roamed the countryside begging or committing crimes
Walter Raleigh
Famous explorer who tried to set up colonies in North America