GCSE Edexcel History
Elizabeth EXAM 2024/2025 |
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EXAM QUESTIONS AND
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, What was the *court*? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- made up of *noblemen*
- acted as advisers to monarch - helped display her wealth and power
- could also be members of the *Privy council*
What were *Justices of the Peace*? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- large landowners - appointed by
government
- kept law and order locally and heard court cases
What were *Lord lieutenants*? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- nobleman
- governed English counties and raised the local *militia*
What was poverty during Elizabeth's reign? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- Spending more than 80%
of your income on food
- Being unemployed or ill, so you could no longer provide for yourself or your family
- Being unable to afford the rising cost of food
- Needing financial help (poor relief) or charity (aims)
What types of people were poor? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- Widows or women abandoned by
their husbands and their families - women were paid very little
- The sick and the elderly - were uncapable of work
- Orphaned children - 40% of the poor were under 16 years old
- People on low wages
- Itinerants, vagrants and vagabonds - homeless people who moved from their parishes
looking for work - oftened involved in crimes and worried those in authority
What were vagrants? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..People without a settled home or regular work.
Many vagrants were also seen as vagabonds - idle and dishonest people who
wandered from place to place, committing crimes
How did population growth affect poverty? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- population grew from 3
million (in 1551) to 4.2 million (by 1601)
- increased demand for food
- decreased wages
How did growth of towns affect poverty? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- towns, such as London and
Norwich, drove up the cost of rent
- food was brought in from rural areas
How did bad harvests affect poverty? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- in 1562, 1565, 1573, and 1586
- subsistence farmers reduced food supplies & rose prices
How did economic recessions affect poverty? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- caused by trade
embargo - such as Spain over the Netherlands
- created unemployment and poverty
Elizabeth EXAM 2024/2025 |
ACCURATE AND VERIFIED
EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS FOR GUARANTEED
PASS | LATEST UPDATE
,
, What was the *court*? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- made up of *noblemen*
- acted as advisers to monarch - helped display her wealth and power
- could also be members of the *Privy council*
What were *Justices of the Peace*? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- large landowners - appointed by
government
- kept law and order locally and heard court cases
What were *Lord lieutenants*? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- nobleman
- governed English counties and raised the local *militia*
What was poverty during Elizabeth's reign? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- Spending more than 80%
of your income on food
- Being unemployed or ill, so you could no longer provide for yourself or your family
- Being unable to afford the rising cost of food
- Needing financial help (poor relief) or charity (aims)
What types of people were poor? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- Widows or women abandoned by
their husbands and their families - women were paid very little
- The sick and the elderly - were uncapable of work
- Orphaned children - 40% of the poor were under 16 years old
- People on low wages
- Itinerants, vagrants and vagabonds - homeless people who moved from their parishes
looking for work - oftened involved in crimes and worried those in authority
What were vagrants? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..People without a settled home or regular work.
Many vagrants were also seen as vagabonds - idle and dishonest people who
wandered from place to place, committing crimes
How did population growth affect poverty? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- population grew from 3
million (in 1551) to 4.2 million (by 1601)
- increased demand for food
- decreased wages
How did growth of towns affect poverty? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- towns, such as London and
Norwich, drove up the cost of rent
- food was brought in from rural areas
How did bad harvests affect poverty? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- in 1562, 1565, 1573, and 1586
- subsistence farmers reduced food supplies & rose prices
How did economic recessions affect poverty? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- caused by trade
embargo - such as Spain over the Netherlands
- created unemployment and poverty
