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Background/Third Home Rule Bill

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This law was passed in 1801 and created the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

a)

Act of Unionism

b)

Act of Union

c)

Act of Westminster

2.

Ireland did not have its own parliament and was ruled from Westminster, London.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

The Parliament at Westminster consisted of what two houses?

a)

The House of Lords and the House of Ladies

b)

The House of Parliament and the House of Lords

c)

The House of Commons and the House of Lords

4.

The House of Lords could veto any bill passed in the House of Commons. What did this mean they could do?

a)

only vote in favour

b)

block/reject the bill

5.

What percentage of Irish people supported the Union with Britain?

a)

25%

b)

74%

c)

75%

d)

30%

6.

Those who supported the Union were called...

a)

Nationalists

b)

Unionists

c)

separatists

7.

Those who opposed the union were called...

a)

Unionists

b)

Nationalists

c)

separatists

8.

For what three reasons did Unionists want to maintain the Union with Britain?

a)

British identity

b)

Poverty

c)

Prosperity from their industries/businesses

d)

Protestant religion

9.

Why did Nationalists oppose the Union with Britain? (3 reasons)

a)

Poverty

b)

Protestant religion

c)

Catholic religion

d)

Irish identity - language etc

10.

Moderate or 'constitutional' nationalists wanted to persuade Britain to give Ireland Home Rule. Through violence or peaceful means?

a)

Violent

b)

Peaceful, democratic means

11.

Name the leader of the Home Rule Party

a)

Herbert Asquith

b)

Andrew Bonar Law

c)

John Redmond

d)

Edward Carson

12.

What did cultural Nationalists want to promote?

a)

Home Rule

b)

Irish identity

c)

Unionist brutality

13.

Which group of Nationalists wanted complete independence from Britain and were prepared to use violence to achieve this?

a)

cultural nationalists

b)

moderate nationalists

c)

republicans

14.

In 1905 Sinn Féin was set up by who?

a)

John Redmond

b)

Arthur Griffith

c)

James Connolly

15.

Who was the leader of the Liberals?

a)

Andrew Bonar Law

b)

Herbert Asquith

c)

John Redmond

d)

Winston Churchill

16.

Who was the leader of the Conservatives?

a)

Andrew Bonar Law

b)

Herbert Asquith

c)

Arthur Griffith

d)

John Redmond

17.

Why was the Parliament Act 1911 significant in the Home Rule development?

a)

It took away the Lords power of veto

b)

It took away the unionists right to oppose home rule

c)

It had no major significance

18.

When the Third Home Rule Bill was passed by the House of Commons in 1912 the Lords could only veto it twice meaning it would become law by what year?

a)

1915

b)

1914

c)

1916

d)

1913

19.

The Third Home Rule Bill, 1912 led to a _____________ in Irish politics.

a)

agreement

b)

crisis!

c)

war

d)

slight falling out

20.

Unionists opposed Home Rule using the phrase "Home Rule is Rome Rule". What were they afraid of?

a)

the Pope

b)

being ruled/discriminated against by the Catholic majority

c)

tariffs being imposed on their industries