1798 Rebellion Flashcards
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What is the name of the rebellion?
The 1798 Rebellion
How were catholics discriminated?
The Penal Laws
What was included in the Penal Laws?
C couldn’t vote.
C couldn’t sit in parliment.
What are the causes of the 1798 Rebellion?
Influence of Americian and French Revolutions.
Unfair land distribution.
Penal Laws.
How did the Irish hear of the French and Americian Revolutions?
Nespaper.
Stories of returning soilders.
Describe the unfair land distribution.
Protestant Ascendancy got most the land while making up less of the population.
Catholics got less while making up more of the population.
Name the leader of the 1798 rebellion.
Wolfe Tone
Name the society WT was in.
The United Irishmen.
What was the name of WT’s pamphlet?
An argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland.
What does WT talk about in his pamphlet?
Religious Equality
Catholic Emancipation
Political Reform
What happened to the United Irishmen due to the discovery of a French spy?
It became illeagle to be a member of the United Irishmen.
What did WT do to help the rebellion?
He went to France to ask for help.
Why did the French agree to help?
They were at war with Brittian.
What aid did the French provide? How did this go?
They sent 43 ships, they couldn’t land due to the weather.
What was the Brittish’s response to the French’s aid?
Led by General Lake, they would punish anyone suspected of being a United Irishman by using:
Half-hanging
Pitch-capping
Why did the brittish punish them harshly? How did it go?
To reduce the support for the rebellion, this didn’t work.
What happened to Tone?
He was arrested and died in prison.
Describe the Impacts.
Act of Union 1801.
Irish MPs sat in Westminister.
WT influenced 1916 Rising.
Orange Order argued against it.
Who led the rebellion in Wexford?
Father Jon Murphy
Where were government troops defeated in Wexford?
Oulart Hill
What towns did the rebels in Wexford capture?
Eniscorthy
Wexford Town
How did the fighting in Wexford end?
The rebels lost on Vinegar Hill to General Lake.
Why did the Rebellion fail?
Poor orginisation.
Poorly trained.
Fewer good weapons.
Little French help.
Brittish spies.
