Elizabeth I Test

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Elizabeth I Test

• Number 4
• Causes of the Spanish Armada

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• 1. What was the name of the first English person
  to be involved in the Slave Trade?
• John Hawkins

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• 2. What was the name of his younger cousin?
• Francis Drake

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• 3. Briefly describe what the Slave Trade was?
• Taking negroes from Africa to the West Indies to
  work as labourers

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• 4.Why did the Spanish say he was acting
  illegally?
• Only Spanish could trade in the New World

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• 5. How many Slave Trading voyages did he make
  altogether?
• Three

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• 6. What was the name of the Mexican port his
  fleet put into for repairs after a storm
• San Juan dUlloa

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• 7. How many English ships were destroyed in the
  Spanish attack?
• Three

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• 8. Why did the English claim that the Spanish
  attack was treacherous?
• Had promise not to harm English if allowed into
  the harbour

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• 9. How did Drake get his revenge for this attack
  in the years to come?
• Attacked Spanish ships and settlements

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• 10. How did Hawkins get his revenge in the years
  to come?
• Invested in Drakes voyages
• OR
• designed better warships

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• 11. Between what years did Drake sail around the
  world?
• 1577
• to 1580

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• 12. What was the name of his flagship (the second
  name by which it is usually known)?
• Golden Hind(e)

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• 13. What was the name of the big Spanish treasure
  ship which they captured during this voyage?
• Cacafuego

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• 14. On his return how did Elizabeth show that she
  couldnt care about Philip of Spains complaints
  about Drakes actions?
• Knighted him in public/on deck of ship

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• 15. What was the name of the Dutch rebel leader
  whose assassination made Elizabeth fear that the
  Dutch revolt against the Spanish might collapse?
• William the Silent