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  • What law was passed to help the Poor?
    The Poor Law.
  • How long must yeomen hold land for before they can be considered as a member of the gentry?
    3 generations.
  • Who was Elizabeth I's sister?
    Mary Tudor.
  • Citizens or burgesses are the urban (town-dwelling) equivalent of which class?
    Yeomen.
  • Who was Elizabeth I's brother?
    Edward VI.
  • What were gentlemen in Elizabethan times?
    Gentlemen were people who had become wealthy landowners, by acquiring large amounts of property.
  • What class was at the bottom of the classes in Elizabethan England?
    The Poor.
  • Who are the yeomen's landlords?
    The gentry.
  • Did a gentleman have the right to bear arms?
    Yes.
  • What was the key to becoming a member of the gentry?
    Wealth
  • Who was Queen Elizabeth's Father?
    Henry VIII
  • Name two of the four kinds of Elizabethan people.
    Gentlemen, yeomen, citizens, labourers.
  • What is a yeoman?
    The yeomanry are essentially prosperous, non-gentle (and non-husbandmen) tenants, worth no less than £6 per annum, according to Harrison.
  • What could happen to a member of the poor if they chose not to work?
    They could be sentenced to death.
  • How much of the population of Elizabethan England were classified as gentry?
    5%.
  • Other categories are included under the heading of gentry. These are gentlemen, gentlewomen, squires and....?
    Knights.
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