Elizabeth I Domestic Policy Dates

Question 1

When did Elizabeth I become Queen?

Answer 1

November 1558

Question 2

When was William Cecil appointed Secretary of State?

Answer 2

November 1558

Question 3

When was there an outbreak of the Black Death early in Elizabeth’s reign?

Answer 3

1563

Question 4

When was Elizabeth ill with smallpox?

Answer 4

1562

Question 5

When was the Succession Crisis?

Answer 5

1562

Question 6

When was James I born?

Answer 6

1566

Question 7

When was Mary Queen of Scots forced to abdicate the throne?

Answer 7

1567

Question 8

When does Mary of Scots escape and is then ‘voluntarily’ imprisoned in England?

Answer 8

1568

Question 9

When was the Rising of the North?

Answer 9

1569

Question 10

When is Thomas Howard imprisoned for plotting to marry Mary Queen of Scots?

Answer 10

1569

Question 11

When was James Stuart assassinated?

Answer 11

1570

Question 12

When did discussions begin to arrange a marriage between Duke of Anjou and Elizabeth?

Answer 12

1570

Question 13

When was the Babington plot?

Answer 13

1586

Question 14

When is Mary Queen of Scots executed?

Answer 14

1587

Question 15

When was Roderigo Lopez executed for allegedly trying to poison Elizabeth I?

Answer 15

1594

Question 16

When was the Essex Rebellion?

Answer 16

1601

Question 17

When did Elizabeth I die?

Answer 17

1603

Question 18

When is the Ridolfi Plot?

Answer 18

1571

Question 19

When is the Throckmorton Plot?

Answer 19

1583

Question 20

When is the Parry Plot?

Answer 20

1585

Question 21

How many acts were passed overall under Elizabeth I?

Answer 21

438

Question 22

How much did debt rise under Elizabeth I?

Answer 22

Only raised by £123,000 since 1558. This represented just under £3000 debt per year.

Question 23

When was the Muscovy Company set up? (trade in Russia and North Europe and unsuccessful)

Answer 23

1555

Question 24

When was the Eastland Company set up? (trade with the Baltic and unsuccessful)

Answer 24

1579

Question 25

When was the Levant Company set up? (trade with the Ottoman Empire and was successful)

Answer 25

1581

Question 26

When was the East India Company set up? (trade with Asia and had limited success)

Answer 26

1600

Question 27

When was the Vagabond Act?

Answer 27

1572

Question 28

When was the Act for the Relief of the Poor?

Answer 28

1597

Question 29

Who were the most influential portrait miniaturists?

Answer 29

Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver

Question 30

Who was the first named English architect?

Answer 30

Robert Smythson

Question 31

Who were the two most important composers of this time?

Answer 31

William Byrd and Thomas Tallis

Question 32

Who composed the collection 'The triumph of Oriana' which was 25 madrigals?

Answer 32

Thomas Morley

Question 33

How many out of 44 harvests were considered poor?

Answer 33

9

Question 34

When were there four successive poor harvests?

Answer 34

1594 - 1597

Question 35

When was there a subsistence crisis?

Answer 35

1596-97

Question 36

What is the evidence for the subsistence crisis?

Answer 36

Newcastle buried 25 homeless and real wages dropped 50%

Question 37

What kind of product was there a wider range of under Elizabeth?

Answer 37

Luxury goods

Question 38

When did the cloth trade decline?

Answer 38

1550s

Question 39

Who attempted to colonise Virginia and when?

Answer 39

Walter Raleigh in 1584

Question 40

How many expeditions did Hawkins make from 1562?

Answer 40

3, he took slaves from Africa and sold them in South America

Question 41

Why did Raleigh's attempt to colonise Virginia fail?

Answer 41

bad luck, ill preparation and reluctance from the Queen to make it priority

Question 42

When was the Statute of Artificers and what was it?

Answer 42

1562 - fixed prices, imposed max wages and did not limit poverty hugely.

Question 43

What was the population in 1558?

Answer 43

3 million

Question 44

What was the population in 1603?

Answer 44

4.2 million

Question 45

How much did the population increase by under Elizabeth?

Answer 45

40%

Question 46

How much did food prices rise by under Elizabeth?

Answer 46

75%

Question 47

How much did the price of manufactured goods rise by?

Answer 47

45%

Question 48

When was the Poor Relief Act?

Answer 48

1576 (national system of relief)

Question 49

What were the literacy rates under Elizabeth?

Answer 49

30% for men and 10% for women (20% for men in 1558)

Question 50

How many were subject to the cruel laws of the Vagabond Act?

Answer 50

Around 10,000

Question 51

When was Tyrone's Rebellion?

Answer 51

1596 to 1603

Question 52

How many on the 13 parliamentary sessions were to grant extraordinary revenue?

Answer 52

11

Question 53

How many bills did she refuse to give the royal assent to?

Answer 53

over 60, 15 in 1585

Question 54

What parliaments did the issue of marriage come up in?

Answer 54

1563 and 1566

Question 55

When was the Golden Speech?

Answer 55

1601

Question 56

When did the factionalism become clear in Parliament over an argument about whether or not to go to war with Spain by supporting the Dutch rebels?

Answer 56

1572 with Cecil arguing for peace and Dudley for war.

Question 57

How many were in Elizabeth's Privy Council?

Answer 57

19 men, with a smaller amount meeting daily

Question 58

When did Elizabeth withdraw the debased coinage?

Answer 58

1560

Question 59

By 1597 how many members did the Privy Council have?

Answer 59

only 11 as she had failed to make quick replacements

Question 60

By 1597 how many members did the Privy Council have?

Answer 60

only 11 as she had failed to make quick replacements

Question 61

Did JPs further increase and how?

Answer 61

Yes, 50 per county in 1600