1. Starter Quiz 1. Religious group that disliked the theatre?
TASK: Please write down the title, and 1-9 in your margin on a new sheet of paper.
1. Religious group that disliked the theatre?
2. Where would you wear a ruff?
3. What type of boat caused the Naval Race?
4. What was the heavy white make-up made of?
5. Give a reason forb the rise of the gentry?
6. What entertainment did the poor enjoy?
7. When was the Second Moroccan crisis?
8. When was the Entente Cordial signed?
9. Where were the cheapest tickets in the theatre?
Last lesson = 1 pt
Last week = 2 pt
Last term = 3 pt

2. Last lesson = 1 pt Last week = 2 pt Last term = 3 pt 1. Puritans
2. Around your neck
3. Dreadnought
4. lead
5. Tudors’ suspicion of the old Nobility or dissolution of the monasteries or increased wealth
6. Bear baiting, cock-fighting, gambling, drinking, football, wrestling
9. The pit or yard
Give yourself a score out of 18
In a green pen, you are going to write down which topic you need to develop you understanding of (Gentry/ theatre ; Society/ Fashion; Causes of WW1)
For next lesson you need to create revision material on that topic. In that next lesson, you will be given a new quiz just on the topic you are revising.

3. Elizabeth Lesson 9: The Poor- reasons for the increase in poverty and attitudes and responses to poverty
Even better:
Evaluate the effectiveness of Elizabeth and her Government in helping the poor
Good learning:
Understand why there was poverty in Elizabethan England
Great learning:
Explain the attitudes to the poor in Elizabethan England
Key Words: Enclosure, rack-renting, inflation, vagabonds

4. The poor
The working poor made up about 50% of all families in Tudor England
They were illiterate
Did not own land
Spent 80% of their income on food and drink
Despite working hard their lives were very hard and they struggled to survive in difficult times.
Those who could not find work ended up begging as there was no unemployment benefit and the poor were very unlikely to have any savings.
Look at the sources on page 45: Why do you think there was seen to be a Poverty Crisis?

5. The causes of poverty
Use the text, figures and sources on pages 46,47 and 48 to create a diagram/ explanation of why there was poverty in England.
Make sure you include:
Rising population
Inflation and its causes
Trade problems with Antwerp (where 70% of English exports went to)
Monopolies
Bad/terrible harvests
Enclosure
Rack-renting (overly high rents)
The loss of monasteries

6. The causes of poverty
Using figures 5a, 5b and 6 when to you think poverty would have been at its worst in Elizabethan England? Explain your answer.

7. Attitudes to the poor The deserving or ‘impotent poor’
The undeserving or ‘idle poor’
Explain the differing attitudes towards the 2 groups above
Create a table detailing the different types of beggars you could expect to see (p48-9)
How were these groups viewed by the rest of society?
Why would these groups cause problems for the ‘deserving poor’?
Why were groups of traveling or ‘wandering’ poor such a problem?
What do sources 10,11 and 12 tell you about attitudes to the poor?

8. Evaluate the effectiveness of Elizabeth and her Government in helping the poor
Government policies:
Full recoinage, which had been planned by Queen Mary-helped slow inflation
Statute of Artifices (1563)- wage limits on skilled workers (attempt top slow inflation)
Act of Husbandry and tillage (1598)- slowed trend for enclosure
Using the information from earlier in the lesson and Figures on page 46/47 how well do you think the above worked?

9. Local Measures
Initially measures to help the poor took place at a local level as attempts were made to both help and control the poor.
Define the key terms: Alms, Censuses and Workhouse
In London the following hospitals were set up:
St Batholomew’s for the sick
St Thomas’ for the Elderly
Christ’s Hospital for orphans
Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam) for the insane
What does this tell us about attitudes to the poor?

10. The Elizabethan Poor Law

11. Elizabethan Poor Law Using the previous slide and pages 51 and 52
How effective was Elizabeth’s actions towards the poor?:
a) For keeping social order
b) Looking after the poor
Which group(s) were treated badly?
What do you think Elizabeth’s motivation was?

12. Elizabeth Lesson 9: The Poor- reasons for the increase in poverty and attitudes and responses to poverty
Even better:
Evaluate the effectiveness of Elizabeth and her Government in helping the poor
Good learning:
Understand why there was poverty in Elizabethan England
Great learning:
Explain the attitudes to the poor in Elizabethan England
Key Words: