elizabethan england; 1568-1603

Question 1

what type of government was under elizabeth I?

Answer 1

absolute monarchy

Question 2

what two things usually decided matters?

Answer 2

the queen + privy council

Question 3

how was parliament’s role?

Answer 3

very very limited

Question 4

name the 4 roles in local government?

Answer 4

• royal representatives
• JP
• sheriffs
• lords lieutenant

Question 5

what was local government drawn from?

Answer 5

gentry

Question 6

what were regional councils?

Answer 6

such as the council of the north rules far from london

Question 7

what was the patronage system?

Answer 7

the handing out of jobs and titled by the monarch

Question 8

where did the court meet?

Answer 8

wherever the queen was

Question 9

how did elizabeth use patronage?

Answer 9

to ensure loyalty

Question 10

what was the privy council?

Answer 10

a senior group of ministers appointed by elizabeth

Question 11

who lead the privy council?

Answer 11

the secretary of state

Question 12

what was bess of hardwick instructed to do?

Answer 12

keep mary, queen of scots under house arrest

Question 13

what was william cecil’s role?

Answer 13

secretary of state

Question 14

what was cecil acting in?

Answer 14

the interests of the state and the queen

Question 15

who was robert dudley?

Answer 15

1st earl of leicster
key military officer
potential husband to mary, queen of scots and elizabeth

Question 16

who was francis walsingham?

Answer 16

spymaster and secret police man
disrupted plots against elizabeth

Question 17

name some possible suitors for elizabeth?

Answer 17

• robert dudley
• francis, duke of anjou (french prince)
• archduke charles of austria (cousin to phillip i of spain)

Question 18

when was essex sent to ireland?

Answer 18

1599

Question 19

what did essex sign?

Answer 19

a treaty, which was seen as a disgrace

Question 20

what happened to essex after signing the treaty?

Answer 20

he was seen as a disgrace + imprisoned

Question 21

what was the goal of essex’s rebellion?

Answer 21

to force the queen to get rid of lord cecil

Question 22

what did essex try to do to the city of london?

Answer 22

raise it in rebellion

Question 23

what did robert cecil do when essex rebelled?

Answer 23

sent warnings to the mayor

Question 24

what did essex’s followers after cecil sent warnings to the mayor?

Answer 24

deserted him, ending the rebellion

Question 25

what happened to essex after the rebellion?

Answer 25

he was arrested, given a show trial and then executed

Question 26

what was the great chain used for?

Answer 26

justifying persistent inequality

Question 27

what were the causes of weath?

Answer 27

- increase in international trade and exploration - increase in industrialisation and urbanisation - emerging middle professional class

Question 28

what were the causes of poverty?

Answer 28

- lack of any kind of welfare state - extremely limited pensions - rampant disease and lack of education

Question 29

what was vagabondage?

Answer 29

the condition of being unemployed and homeless (a travelling beggar)

Question 30

what was the helpless poor?

Answer 30

the sick and the old given food and accomodation

Question 31

who were the able-bodied poor?

Answer 31

had to work in exchange for food

Question 32

who were the idle poor?

Answer 32

punished and sent to a house of correction

Question 33

why was the theatre popular?

Answer 33

- affordable - new and exciting - sociable

Question 34

what was opposition to the theatre?

Answer 34

- puritans saw it as a distraction from prayer - some saw it as sinful - theatres were dangerous (drunkenness, crime)

Question 35

what did richer elizabethan's do to get her to like them in relation to theatre?

Answer 35

become patrons of the theatre

Question 36

what did sir walter raleigh do?

Answer 36

made voyages to south america, discovering new lands and publishing an embellished account of voyages

Question 37

what did drake do?

Answer 37

circumnavigation of the world

Question 38

what was the ridolfi plot?

Answer 38

the banker ridolfi able to travel between counties uniting conspirators

Question 39

what was the northern rebellion?

Answer 39

a failed rebellion of norther noblemen aiming to depose elizabeth

Question 40

what did elizabeth do to end plotting?

Answer 40

imprison and execute mary, queen of scots

Question 41

what year was the babington plot?

Answer 41

1586

Question 42

what was the plan for the babington plot?

Answer 42

babington planned to kill elizabeth and rescue mary to be the monarch

Question 43

how did babington tell mary about his plan?

Answer 43

mary's servants hiding coded messages within beer barrels

Question 44

how was the plot exposed?

Answer 44

the servants were spies for sir francis walsingham and they told him

Question 45

what happened to mary after the babington plot?

Answer 45

trial for treason and exectuion