4 - Elizabethan Society & Exploration
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Why did poverty increase? (4)
Population growth
Inflation
Unemployment
Enclosure
What is enclosure?
Land fenced off by rich farmers → peasants lose land
Who were the deserving poor?
Sick, elderly, disabled (given help)
Who were the undeserving poor?
Healthy beggars (punished)
How were vagabonds treated?
Whipped, imprisoned under poor laws
What is Poor Relief?
1563 further improved in 1572
Local parish tax to support poor people
What was the Vagabonds act? Year?
1572
The law that punished and controlled “undeserving poor (able-bodied beggars)
What education did boys receive?
Grammar school: Latin, religion, maths
How were girls educated? Mostly
At home: household skills
Popular sports in Elizabethan England (3)
Bear baiting
Football
Archery
Why was theatre important? Who popular?
Entertainment for rich and poor
Shakespeare popular
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?
Explorer who attempted colonisation of Virginia
Why explore the world? (4)
Trade
Wealth
Rivalry with Spain
New lands
Why did Drake circumnavigate world? (3)
Profit,
Exploration
Prestige
What was Roanoke?
Failed English colony in Virginia (lost colony)
Why did Roanoke fail?
Lack of supplies
Native conflict
Isolation
Poor planning