Question

After you complete this, you will need to write 2 paragraphs supporting or contradicting the statement “The reign of Queen Elizabeth I was/was not the Golden Age of English history.” Your paragraphs must use at least 3 points of evidence from the reading to support your viewpoint.

Answer 1

HERE IT IS; Actually she was of the greatest rulers England ever had.GOOD LUCK!!! Ricardo

THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I WAS THE GOLDEN AGE OF ENGLISH HISTORY. The reasons go in this couple of paragraphs:

The daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I became one of the most effective monarchs in British history. She succeeded Mary I in 1558 and reigned for the next 44 years. Dedicated to her position as ruler, Elizabeth fought off rivals (such as Mary, Queen of Scots, a rival heir to the throne who was imprisoned for 19 years and executed in 1587) and expanded England's power overseas. Most notably, she led the country in defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588. Her reign is considered one of England's high points: it featured luminaries such as Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and William Shakespeare, and was the birth of England's global expansion and colonization

When Elizabeth succeeded her sister to the throne in 1558, religious strife, a huge government debt, and failures in the war with France had brought England's fortunes to a low ebb. Elizabeth came to the throne with the Tudor concept of strong rule and the realization that effective rule depended upon popular support. She was able to select and work well with the most competent of counselors. Sir William Cecil (Lord Burghley) was appointed immediately, and Sir Francis Walsingham in 1573.

At her death 45 years later, England had passed through one of the greatest periods of its history—a period that produced William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, Walter Raleigh, Martin Frobisher, Francis Drake, and other notable figures in literature and exploration; a period that saw England, united as a nation, become a major European power with a great navy; a period in which English commerce and industry prospered and English colonization was begun.

Although Elizabeth has been accused, with some justice, of being vain, fickle, vacillating, prejudiced, and miserly, she was nonetheless exceedingly successful as a queen. Endowed with immense personal courage and a keen awareness of her responsibility as a ruler, she commanded throughout her reign the unwavering respect and allegiance of her subjects.