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Keywords: History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Protestant | At first, a supporter of reform to the Catholic Church; later, a member of the churches that broke away. |
| Simony | The buying or selling of positions within the church |
| Nepotism | The appointing of relatives to church jobs regardless of merit |
| Pluralism | Holding more than one church job at the same time |
| Absenteeism | A priest or bishop being absent from their parish or diocese for a long periods of time |
| Sale of indulgences | The selling of special prayers claimed to reduce a souls time spent in purgatory |
| Justification by faith alone | Martin Luther’s belief that only faith in God could get you into heaven |
| Excommunication | Expulsion from the Catholic Church and being unable to receive the sacraments |
| Predestination | The Presbyterian that God decided before a person was born whether they would go to heaven |
| Courts of inquisition | Catholic courts set up during the Counter-Reformation to try heretics |
| The Plantations | Irish lands confiscated by the king could be sold or rented to English settlers. |
| Old English | People in the Pale that were loyal to the king. |
| Anglo- Irish | Descendants of the Anglo-Normans that invaded Ireland during the twelfth century (1100s) |
| Gaelic Irish | the Irish chieftains who followed Irish laws, also known as Brehon Laws |
| Brehon Laws | Gaelic Irish laws going as far back as the Iron Age. |
| Surrender and regrant | The Old English and Gaelic Irish rulers were to surrender themselves and their land to King Henry Vlll, and he would grant their land back to them with an English title. |
| Succession | When land was passed down from father to son in an English system |
| Planters | New settlers during a plantation |
| Adventurer | Men who claimed to be descendants of the early Normans granted land in Munster by Henry Vlll |
| Presidents | Men who imposed English law, the English language and the Protestant religion |
| Undertakers | Men who agreed (undertook) to do what they were told with the land they were given. |
| The flight of the earls (when was it) | When O’Neill and other Ulster chiefs fled to Europe in 1607 |
| Servitors | English or Scottish soldiers that had fought for the crown |
| Loyal Irish | The native Irish people that stayed loyal to the Crown during the Nine Years War. |
| Penal Laws | Laws that suppressed the status of Catholics in Ireland. |
| Revolution | A rapid and significant change in society, politics, technology or the economy |
| The Enlightenment | A movement of thinkers that valued reason and science above faith or authority as a basis for society. |
| When was the seven years war? Who won it? | 1756- 1763 and Britain won against French settlers |
| What was the Navigation Acts? | They forced the colonies to some of their products (sugar, cotton, tobacco) to Britain alone. This meant that Britain could decide the price. This caused a lot of smuggling. |
| What was the stamp act and when was it introduced? When was it pulled pack? | The stamp act required every legal document, will, newspapers, certificates and playing cards to have a stamp (that you had to pay for) and it was introduced 1765 and stopped in 1766. |
| What was the Quartering Act and when was it introduced? | It created taxes that the colonists had to pay, to cover the costs of the Seven Years War and the price of soldiers in the colonies. It was in 1765. |
| What was the Townshend acts and when was it introduced? | They were taxes of goods America imported, such as tea, paint, lead and glass. It was introduced in 1767. |
| What was the Boston massacre? | A group of colonists were protesting against the townshend acts and were killed by British soldiers in 1770. 5 people were killed. |
| Militias | Part time armies |
| Constitution | A set of fundamental rules for running a country that outlined the powers of the government and the rights of the citizens |
| Federal republic | A system of government where power is dived between a central government (usually headed by a president) and several regions or states. |
| What happened after the Boston massacre? | The British withdrew all the taxes they placed, except a small tax on tea imports |
| What was the Tea Act? When was it passed? | It was passed in 1773 and exempted the East India Company from paying the tea tax. |
| What was the Boston Tea party? | In 1773, the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Native Americans and dumped 342 crates of East India Company tea into Boston harbour. |
| How many colonies did Britain have in North America and where were they? | 13 and they were on the east coast. |
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