Elizabethan England:society in the Age Exploration1558-1588

• What were grammar schools?

  Grammar schools were private schools set up for boys considered to be bright
• What were Petty schools?

  For boys whose parents could afford to send their children to school
• What were Dame schools?


  These schools provided a basic education for girls
• What two universities did Early Elizabethan England have?

  Oxford and Cambridge
• Name three sports enjoyed by the nobility

  Hunting, fishing and fencing
• Name three sports the lower classes enjoyed

  Football, bear baiting, cock-fighting
• Name three other Elizabethan pastimes

  Theatre (The Rose theatre, Globe Theatre), music and dancing
• Name five reasons for the increase of the poor in Elizabethan England

  Enclosure, population growth (35%), sheep farming, rising prices, decline in the cloth trade
• What were vagabonds? 


  Homeless people without jobs who roamed the countryside begging for money/looking for work
•  What was Poor relief?

  Some financial help for the poor raised through a tax called the poor rate
•  Who were the deserving poor?


  Those who were unable to work because of age or illness
• Who were the idle/undeserving poor?

  Those who were fit to work but didn’t
• What punishment could vagabonds face?

  Whipping
• What was the 1572 Vagabonds Act?


  Aimed to deter vagrancy, vagrants would be whipped and a hole drilled through the ear
• What was the 1576 Poor Relief Act?


  JPs were meant to try and help the able bodied to find work 
• What was triangular trade?

  English traders bought slaves from Africa, transported them across the Atlantic, sold them in return for goods which were then transported back to Europe.
• What were quadrants and astrolabes?

  Devices which helped sailors to navigate at sea
•  Name a map used by Elizabethan explorers

  The mercator map, used longitude and latitude
• What are some estimates of the amount of treasure Drake hauled?

  £500,000,000 in today’s money! Most of it was stolen from the Spanish!
• Who organised the colonisation attempts of Virginia?

  Sir Walter Raleigh
• What was the name of the native tribe in Roanoke?

  Algonquian tribe
•  Who were the leaders of the first colonisation attempt?

  Richard Grenville and Ralph Lane
• What was the name of the damaged ship?

  The Tiger
• Who was the leader of the Algonquian people?

  Chief Wingina