Which statements accurately describe elizabeth i? choose all answers that are correct.
a. she achieved fame and prestige during her short reign.
b. she defeated the spanish armada, clearing the way for england to build an empire.
c. she restored the church of england as the nation’s official church.
d. she imprisoned francis drake for attacking spanish ships.

Statements B and C are correct.

B- She defeated the Spanish Armada, clearing the way for England to build an empire:  

In August of 1588 the Spanish plans of invasion of England became effective: the Spanish Armada, led by the Duke of Medina-Sidonia attacked the English fleet led by Charles Howard in the English Channel. The adverse weather conditions and the clashes with the English fleet caused the loss of 37 Spanish ships out of a total of 129 ships of different types.

The failure of the Armada allowed England to continue its attacks on the Spanish territories, while continuing to help the Netherlands and France.

C- She restored the Church of England as the nation's official church: One of the most outstanding events of his reign was the transformation of England, a mostly Catholic country, into a Protestant country. Mary, sister of Elizabeth, had restored Catholicism during her time in office, to such an extent that the Queen did not find any important bishop to officiate her coronation and had to turn to the Bishop of Carlisle.

Already in 1559, Elizabeth, supreme governor of the Anglican Church, proclaimed the Uniformity Act, which required the use of a revised version of the Edward VI Devotional - a Protestant book - in the offices and going to church every Sunday, and the Act of Supremacy that forced the employees of the crown to recognize by oath the subordination of the English church to the monarchy. Most of the Catholic bishops installed by Mary refused to accept these changes, being deposed and replaced by people favorable to the theses of the queen.

Elizabeth tried during her first years a policy of tolerance towards the Catholics; However, the rebellions of 1569 and 1571 and the papal bull of excommunication of 1570 led her to toughen measures against Catholics. Between 1584 and 1585 a law was passed condemning to death those Catholic priests who had been ordained after the queen's ascension in 1559. Due in part to the persecution, partly to the identification of Protestantism and patriotism during the war against Spain and the aging (and subsequent death) of Catholic priests, the country had effectively become Protestant by the time the queen died in 1603.

a. competition between france and england for land and power