Test 1

Study: lecture and discussion notes, Coohill Chapter 1, Bartlett (ARES), documents in coursepack

 

Part A Short answer: 25 questions (fill in the blank), 2 points each

You will have access to the word bank below during the test.

Sample questions:

I was one of the English empire’s first boosters, compiling and publishing much information about colonies in order to convince my fellow Englishmen that colonization was a good idea. Answer: Richard Hakluyt

Beginning in the mid-17th century, the British instituted the ______________________________ to protect their trade; the economic ideology underlying such a policy is known as ______________________________. Answers: Navigation Acts; mercantilism.

Celts/Gaels Brehon law Old English Strongbow Common Law
the Pale Poyning's Law Gerald Fitzgerald, 8th Earl of Kildare Henry VIII Silken Thomas
surrender and regrant Anglican New English anglicization Munster Plantation
Walter Ralegh Nine Years War Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone Flight of the Earls Ulster Plantation
Charles II Thomas Wentworth 1641 Rebellion Oliver Cromwell indentured servants
the Western Design Navigation Acts Montserrat the Restoration Glorious Revolution
James II William of Orange Battle of the Boyne William Molyneux Jonathan Swift
T. of Limerick/ Wild Geese penal laws Dublin Castle the Ascendancy regium donum
Ulster Scots tithes Patriot MPs Charles Lucas Henry Grattan
Edmund Burke Volunteers free trade Constitution of 1782  

 

Part B Document identifications: 5 documents, 10 points each

In a paragraph, identify (author; title; date) and analyze five out of six document excerpts (state why significant).

 

[Note: Bartlett discusses many of these documents.]

Statutes of Kilkenny

Poynings Law

Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland

O'Neill, War Aims

Confederation of Kilkenny, Objectives

Temple, The Irish Rebellion

Cromwell, Report from Ireland to Parliament

Molyneux, The Case of Ireland Stated

English Parliament, Wool Act

Irish Parliament, Act to Prevent the Further Growth of Popery

British Parliament, Declaratory Act

Swift, A Modest Proposal

Grattan, Speech in Irish Parliament

Irish Parliament, Catholic Relief Act (1782)