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9 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Bloody Mary | daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558 |
| Elizabeth I | Reestablished Protestantism as the state religion of England and she led the defeat of the Spanish Armada. |
| Mary Stuart | A Scottish Catholic queen who fled Scotland during its reformation and later attempted to organize the assassination of Elizabeth I; she was beheaded. |
| Babington Plot | Queen Elizabeth I was plotted to be assassinated by her cousin Mary Queen of Scots and has her beheaded for it |
| Thirty Nine Articles | written in 1563, this defined the rules of the Anglican Church. The document followed Protestant doctrine but still accommodated for other English, except the Puritans. |
| Presbytarians | A religious group who worked through parliament create an alternative national church, Elizabeth considered them a threat because of their threatening the unity of the Church of England |
| Congregationalists | The more extreme Puritans who believed every congregation ought to be autonomous, a law unto itself controlled by neither bishops nor Presbyterian assemblies. |
| Sir Francis Drake | English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596) |
| Treaty of Nonsuch | An agreement between England and the Netherlands. England gave money and troops to Netherland in exchange for land. Philip saw this as a declaration of war by England, prompting the Spanish Armada. |
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