The Elizabethan age- Key content breakdown

what were elizabeth’s strenghts?

• popular

• English parents

• protestant

What were Elizabeth’s weaknesses?

• Big debts

• Female

• threats from Catholics

• religious conflict

• single

two examples of how elizabeth mainted her image

• undertaking regular royal progresses

• controlling her image through official portraits

What was the royal court in charge of

• centre of political power

• people like nobles who wen to court to try get her patronage

What was the Elizabethan government like? (SPEND)

• a lot less powerful then the government now

• between 1558 and 1603 parliament only met 12 times

• parliament could not discuss personal affairs like religion

• the monarch could close parliament whenever they wanted

how many JP’s (justices of the peace) were appointed to each county?

around 40 JP’s in each county. like a ‘police force’

What was the job of the local government (people like JP’s)?

they could punish robbers, thieves and vagabonds and dealt with complaints, violence and unlawful behaviour

What did the Privy council consist of?

• 19 noblemen chosen as trusted advisors

• they did not control the queen

• they met most days

• advised on domestic of foreign issues

What was the Privy council

a loyal group of advisors surrounding Queen Elizabeth I

Types of Vagabonds- What was a hooker?

They would steal valuables and clothes through the windows of homes using long wooden sticks

Types of Vagabonds- What was a Clapper Dudgeon?

They tied arsenic to their skin to make it bleed hoping to attract sympathy whilst begging

Types of Vagabonds- What was an Abraham Man?

Pretended to be mad hoping that their threatening behaviour would result in in charity through pity

SPEND- what year was the Vagabonds act put into place and what was it?

1572

• created harsh punishments for vagabonds

SPEND- What year did the poor law become permanent

1598

SPEND- When was the first Act for the Relief of the Poor put into place and what was it?

1576

• those who refused to work wee punished

• houses of correction built to provide work for people to improve their situations

SPEND- In which year were strolling bands banned and why?

1572

• worried about information spread in plays/ music

• link to vagrancy

• spread of disease

What did the Ban of strolling bands lead to?

it led to the formation of government controlled theatre companies making theatre all the more popular for all classes

SPEND- the names of some Elizabethan theatres

• The Theatre

• The Globe

• The Curtain

What group of people opposed the theatre and why

Puritans. they thought that plays and the theatre was distracting people from attending church and distracting them from god. also that it encouraged crime and spread disease

what was the via media (middle way)

Elizabeth’s compromise between ideas of Catholics and protestants to help settle the problems with religion

what was the act of supremacy? (1559)

Elizabeth became ‘supreme governor’ and had all important officials swear an oath to recognise Elizabeth as the highest power right before god.

what was the act of uniformity? (1559)

made sure that elements of catholic churches and protestant churches were in churches all over England to create a uniform and made it obligatory by law to attend church.