During the Renaissance, the forgotten Greek and Roman culture was embraced once again. Many invested in education and the arts in hopes of creating a thriving economy (Frey 315). The Elizabethan era came to be when the young Queen Elizabeth I rose to power in 1558. Women in this time period had to meet society’s standards by marrying for power and wealth, or they would be frowned upon by peers and exposed to the accusations of witchcraft (“Elizabethan Women”). They were considered property. To set an empowering example, Queen Elizabeth I rose from her family’s past detrimental marriages and “married” England instead of a husband to avoid repeating the same mistakes of her predecessors King Henry VIII and Mary Tudor.
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It was considered England’s golden age. When a young monarch ascended the throne the English treasury was in debt on the behalf of the expensive wars Mary and her husband tangled with (“Elizabeth I and Finances”) With her trusted advisors the Queen raised fines for not going to church (Weatherly 64) and encouraged merchants to find a variety of markets for goods, which resulted in trades being conducted in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. This helped fix the financial problems in England. However, a new solution had to be developed by the government to aid the three to four million people living in poor standards. The nation’s poor would obviously be a major factor in whether the country thrived or not because it affected how well and when people worked. Queen Elizabeth would not allow the enormous amounts of citizens to suffer in these living standards. As a determined woman, she found a solution by taxing the rich to support the construction of orphanages and workhouses and the poor’s daily needs (Bingham 37). More importantly, the poor laws, a set of laws that classified the unfortunate in categories to determine the level of assistance(Alchin. Linda), was established. Despite the fact that there was a category for the undeserving poor, those poor because they choose not to work, these laws helped millions recover from poverty. Moreover, a turn of events occurred when Philip II of Spain, the husband of late Mary Tudor, declared war on the country after the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, whom was found guilty of plotting a death plan for Elizabeth. The headstrong Queen did not stand back and allow parliament to make all of the war decisions, she took matters into her own hands by providing and finalizing the spendings of supplies. Especially to reassure her subjects that the attack of the spanish would be the end of them. “I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart
At first, the young princess …show more content…
It was considered England’s golden age. When a young monarch ascended the throne the English treasury was in debt on the behalf of the expensive wars Mary and her husband tangled with (“Elizabeth I and Finances”) With her trusted advisors the Queen raised fines for not going to church (Weatherly 64) and encouraged merchants to find a variety of markets for goods, which resulted in trades being conducted in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. This helped fix the financial problems in England. However, a new solution had to be developed by the government to aid the three to four million people living in poor standards. The nation’s poor would obviously be a major factor in whether the country thrived or not because it affected how well and when people worked. Queen Elizabeth would not allow the enormous amounts of citizens to suffer in these living standards. As a determined woman, she found a solution by taxing the rich to support the construction of orphanages and workhouses and the poor’s daily needs (Bingham 37). More importantly, the poor laws, a set of laws that classified the unfortunate in categories to determine the level of assistance(Alchin. Linda), was established. Despite the fact that there was a category for the undeserving poor, those poor because they choose not to work, these laws helped millions recover from poverty. Moreover, a turn of events occurred when Philip II of Spain, the husband of late Mary Tudor, declared war on the country after the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, whom was found guilty of plotting a death plan for Elizabeth. The headstrong Queen did not stand back and allow parliament to make all of the war decisions, she took matters into her own hands by providing and finalizing the spendings of supplies. Especially to reassure her subjects that the attack of the spanish would be the end of them. “I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart