Plantations

Question 1

What is a plantation?

Answer 1

A plantation is another name for a colony

Question 2

What is a tenant?

Answer 2

Somebody of rents land and works in a plantation

Question 3

What is an undertaker?

Answer 3

Someone in charge of a plantation

Question 4

What is a servitor?

Answer 4

Ex-soldier

Question 5

What is a woodkerne?

Answer 5

Native Irish

Question 6

What were the causes of the plantations in Ireland?

Answer 6

1. To spread the Protestant religion across Ireland
2. To ‘civilise’ Ireland by bringing in English laws
3. To stop English enemies using Ireland as a ‘back door’ to England.

Question 7

What are the four plantations called?

Answer 7

The pale
Loais and Offaly
Munster
Ulster

Question 8

What were the reasons for the Munster plantation failing

Answer 8

1. The Munster plantation was full of murderers, runners away with other mens wives, bankrupts and poptists to name a few. This wouldn’t help to grow a safe community.
2. The undertakers were in it for the money and charge high rent. They charged high rent and only the Irish would pay to get the land they had back.
3. Their Irish tenants were the first to rebel against them.
4. Hugh O’Neil found it easy to stir up revolt and drive the settlers out of the land because the Irish wanted the land they had owned for generations back.

Question 9

Why did James desire to have a plantation in Ulster?

Answer 9

1. Reasons of law and order- the Irish were seen as barbarians so they thought the settlers would help establish law and order
2. Security factors- enemies could use Ireland a back door to England
3. Religious factors- they wanted to spread Protestantism
4. Population concerns- England was over populated so the plantation would move some of the population to Ulster
5. Financial factors- add to the crowns wealth which always needed replenished

Question 10

What are the push factors for people to move to Ulster?

Answer 10

1. Landlords in Scotland offered short term leases
2. A population problem in Scotland put pressure on people to leave
3. Outlaws in Scotland were harshly treated

Question 11

What are the pull factors for people to come to Ulster?

Answer 11

1. It was possible in some parts of Antrim to get a tenement (a section of property) for 99 years.
2. The younger sons of land owners saw an opportunity to to acquire their own land
3. Ulster was full of natural resources for building houses and ships. It also had good ports and fertile soils for farming

Question 12

What was the flight of the earls?

Answer 12

The flight of the earls was when the earls of Ireland were defeated and had to swear an oath to the crown. In 1607 they fled to Europe to try and get support for a rebellion but they never came back

Question 13

Why did people go to Ulster

Answer 13

For a minister many went there to teach what they thought the barbaric Irish that needed to learn Protestantism and laws

For farmers there was loads of land with very fertile soil that was cheap to tenant