Elizabethan England 3

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Elizabethan education was more about _____ than becoming more intelligent
learning your place in society
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Where were the nobility educated?
at home
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In the nobility, boys and girls were educated separately from which age?
7
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There was an ____ in grammar schools in England during the 16th century
increase
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What school did grammar school boys go to before grammar?
petty school
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What was the equivalent of a petty school for girls?
Dame school
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Where were petty schools run?
in a teacher's home
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Who were Dame Schools run by?
local educated women
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Which gender could go to university?
male
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Which Oxford college did Elizabeth I found in 1571?
Jesus College
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Why did Elizabeth set up the Jesus College, Oxford in 1571?
To educate more protestant clergy men
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Which two key things affected a person's leisure opportunities?
class and gender
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What sport was played by lower class men and there were no rules?
football
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Instead of telling biblical stories (seen as too Catholic) what themes did Theatres turn to?
secular
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Which theatre company was established by Elizabeth?
The Queen's Men
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People were educated to take up their _____ in society
place
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Grammar schools replaced _____-controlled schools
church
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What were people who moved around parishes looking for work called?
Vagabonds
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Modern historians identify the poor as those spending 80% of their income on ____
bread
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Overpopulated towns pushed prices of food ___
up
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_______ increase was a reason for the increase in poverty and vagabodage
population
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What was more profitable: growing food or sheep farming?
sheep farming
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Landowners _______ the amount of money in wages
decreased
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___ workers were needed in sheep farming than in growing food
fewer
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What was put around fields to stop animals from wondering off?
barriers
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___ workers were needed on enclosed farms
fewer
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Some farmers, when enclosing their land, also enclosed __________
common land
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Who had no fixed place in society?
vagabonds
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Who had no fixed place in society?
vagabonds
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what would vagabonds turn to as well as begging?
theft
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what would vagabonds turn to as well as theft?
begging
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What was the financial help given to the extremely poor called?
poor relief
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Who paid for the poor relief?
taxpayers
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People who were too ill/old to work were known as the ______________
deserving poor
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Which law's aim was to ensure that poor relief was being collected?
Statute of Artificers
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Under the Statute of Artificers, what happened to anyone who refused to pay poor rates?
imprisionment
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Under the Statute of Artificers, officials who failed to organise poor relief could be _____
fined
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What year was the Statute of Artificers?
1563
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What year was the Vagabonds Act?
1572
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What year was the poor relief act?
1576
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Under the 1572 Vagabonds Act, towns and cities were given the responsibility of finding _____ for the able bodied poor
work
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Under the 1576 Poor Relief Act, who were provided with raw materials so that they could make things to sell as their job?
able bodied poor
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Which act, established the national poor rate which sheltered the poor?
Vagabonds Act
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What trade was England involved with in Africa?
slave trade
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What were quadrats and astrolabes?
instruments that allowed ships to steer more accurately
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Journeys were often ___ and then printed
mapped
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More accurate navigation and recording of voyages led to _____ accurate maps
more
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What were the name of the ships that were larger than traditional trading ships and could carry more supplied therefore making them able to travel further?
galleons
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Drake _______ the world, mostly by chance
circumnavigated
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Reason for Drake going to the Americas: revenge against the ______
Spanish
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Reason for Drake going to the Americas: Personal ____ and fame
profit
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Reason for Drake going to the Americas: Personal profit and _____
fame
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Drake gathered useful ________about the Americas which could be used by other English sailors
information
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Who was the second person to circumnavigate the world?
Francis Drake
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Drake's circumnavigation brought great prestige to _____
England
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Who did the Americas belong to according to the pope?
Spain and Portugal
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Who tried to establish an English colony in the Americas in 1583?
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
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What was the name of Raleigh's English Colony?
Virigina
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Who developed a 'model' for how the English could establish colonies in the future?
Walter Raleigh
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Who sent a fact finding voyage to Virginia in 1584?
Walter Raleigh
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What were the names of the two native Americans who were taken back to England with Raleigh?
Manteo and Wanchese
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Where were the nobility educated?

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There was an ____ in grammar schools in England during the 16th century

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