During which decade of Elizabeth's reign were harvests particularly bad?
1560s
1580s
1590s
Poverty was caused because some farmers enclosed their fields and instead of growing crops looked after which animals?
Cows
Sheep
Pigs
Which local government officials looked after poverty related issues?
Justices of the Peace
Members of Parliament
Constables
The 1572 Vagabonds Act punished vagrants. What happened to someone who was caught begging three times?
Whipped
Bored through the ear
Put to death
The 1601 Poor Law set up places for genuinely deserving cases to live in. What were they called?
Almshouses
Safe houses
Workhouses
Where did the wealth of the Elizabethan gentry come from?
Land
Wool and sheep farming
Farming
Who were the 'middling sort'?
Independent craftsmen and tradesmen in the towns. Yeomen and husbandmen in the countryside.
Gentry
Landowners
What was the main food of the labouring poor?
Bread
Meat
Pottage
When was the Elizabethan Poor Law passed?
1601
1588
1587
Where were nearly all of the richest towns?
North
South
West