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what was kind of religious turmoil did England go through under the reign Elizabeth?

Me and my friend Josh are doing a project for the Renaissance time period and our topics were: Religious turmoil and Queen Elizabeth. I guess what we need to know is how England went through religious turmoil during her reign as queen.

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1. Type in the web Religious turmoil and Queen Elizabeth Religious turmoil was soon the subject of impassioned debate. The royal supremacy - the royal title of Supreme Head of the Church of England - was reinstated, though altered to 'Supreme Governor'. In the House of Lords, many bishops resisted the changes but they were quickly replaced by others, led by Matthew Parker as archbishop of Canterbury. Elizabeth pressed for a restoration of the 1549 Prayer Book, which she felt would be acceptable to Protestants and most complacent Catholics. But the new bishops preferred the 1552 Prayer Book; it was rather vague about most controversial maters and thus less offensive to Catholics. Elizabeth assented and the Act of Uniformity was passed. She was particularly successful in making religious dissension a political matter, rather than a troublesome question of doctrine. In the Oath of Supremacy, in which her authority as Supreme Governor was recognized, the queen's powers were explicitly outlined. It was a simple matter to remove Marian stalwarts from positions of authority, and about 300 clergy were dismissed. In total, one third of parish clergy were replaced.
2. Relatively few turmoil. There were some Puritans, but nothing major.
3. well under her father, henry 8, england officially stopped its submission to rome and created its own church, the church of england. so during her rein the catholic church had a little thing called the spanish Inquisition (see monty python) and tried to take over england again. there is a lot more to it. i would say reading a book about the time period of henry 8 and his daughters, mary and Elizabeth.
4. I think http://www.elizabethi.org/uk/elizabethanchurch/ will provide you with some useful read.
5. The Spanish Armada went to England . Elizabeth was influenced by the writings of Luther and her father breaking off from Rome, as most of england, to create his own religion, and then Spain sent a inquisition which Elizabeth was not trying to avoid. Religion was politics in those days and the power of empires.
6. She was one of the best queens the world has ever seen. Her father King Henry VIII kicked all the Catholic priests and bishops out of England and her sister Queen Mary was known as bloody Mary because she burned so many protestant preachers at the stake. After Queen Mary died during childbirth they released her sister from the dungeons where she was sentenced by her sister Mary and Elizabeth became the new queen of England. The Pope in Rome hated her because she would not suck up to him. So the pope convinced the King of Spain to invade England and he sent a thousand ship armada to do just that which Queen Elizabeth quickly destroyed and sent them all to the bottom of the sea. She ruled England for fifty years and her subjects loved her.
7. Her sister Mary, the previous monarch, was a devout Catholic who tried her hardest to get the country back to Catholicism. Lady Jane Grey, her predecessor, was overthrown and Mary put on the throne by her Catholic supporters. She had hundreds of Protestant leaders executed or exiled. Hence, when the protestant Elizabeth became queen, it became necessary to try and appease both Protestants and Catholics - a Protestant church with many superficially Catholic elements. There were assassination attempts and attempts to overthrow Elizabeth and put Mary Queen of Scots on the throne (the Babington Plot) and also with Philip of Spain (Spanish Armada).