Starter quiz
- What was the 1601 Poor Law was designed to eliminate?
- the negative attitudes of the lords towards poor farmers
- the issues of vagrancy and begging ✓
- the concern that blood sports attracted criminals and drunken behaviour
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- Which one of the following was a significant consequence of the dissolution of the monasteries?
- Many people were forced to become vagrants and beggars. ✓
- Poor people were unable to use religious buildings.
- Government had to find alternative buildings to support vagrants and beggars.
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- The name of the most far-reaching act to support those living in poverty, passed in 1601 is ______.
- 'the Poor Law' ✓
- Which monarch passed the Vagabonds Act in 1572?
- 'Elizabeth I' ✓
- Under which of the three categories outlined in the 1601 Poor Law could orphaned children become apprentices to craftsmen?
- the impotent poor
- the idle poor
- the able-bodied poor
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- The group of poor people who were able to work but chose not to were the called the ______.
- 'idle poor' ✓
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