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• History revision: The Plantation of Ulster


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• What


  King James wanted new settlers coming to help him change it. He impede the settlers from England and Scotland would be legal tulite.
• Why


  King James hoped that new settlers being would stay fighting against him.
• Who


  King James decided the land in Ulster would be divided between the following groups: Servitors, undertakers, London companies, church of Ireland and some loyal Irish people.
• Where


  Some of the largest plantation towns were in London Derry, Coleraine and Strabane.
• King James I became the first British monarch to rule over Scotland, England and Ireland.


  1603
• James, a protestant, wanted to unite his three kingdoms and it was decided that people from England and Scotland would be encouraged to move to the north of Ireland to make it friendlier for James.</b>
• Planters


  People who took part in the plantation
• Oliver Cromwell


  Strong leader
• Cromwell attacked Drogheda
• Cromwell's army attacked Drogheda in September 1649
• Cromwell's army killed between two and 800 people in Drogheda
• Cromwell didn't get the surrender of Drogheda
• Cromwell's army attacked Drogheda because they didn't get the surrender
• Cromwell executed Charles I
• Cromwell held a strong position and was a powerful leader
• Cromwell summoned Sir Arthur Aston to surrender but they didn't
• Cromwell was a Protestant