Why did queen elizabeth 1 bring a golden age?
Elizabeth I brought about a Golden Age in England because she was careful with what she spent, building the English treasury back up from previous monarchs who had drained the treasury. England was torn between Cathocolism and Christianity when Elizabeth became queen. Upon Elizabeth’s accession, she passed the Act of Supremacy, ending for the most part the religious fights and saving England from similar fates such as France and Spain endured. For the longest time, Elizabeth avoided war with other nations. She successfully brought Ireland under the English crown and defeated the Spanish Armada of 1588 as well as the ones that Philip II would later send. Elizabeth was populary and the people liked her. She encouraged litertature and the arts, sending England into its Renassicance. Writers such as William Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sydney flourshed during Elizabeth’s reign. Sir Francis Drake made the second voyage around the world and Sir Walter Raleigh sat up the first English colony in
