correct answers on the Answer Sheet.
aaaThe conflict in Northern Ireland appears to be a
religious war,but many Irish people would argue that it
isn t.Its (21)____are in the English colonization of
Ireland.
In the sixteenth century,England colonized
or“planted”most of Ireland by taking land from the
natives and giving it to British people,so creating a
population (22)____ to England.
Ubster,(23)____of the four Irish provinces,was the
last part to be planted,early in the seventeenth
century.Plantations in other parts of the land had not
been as successful as the English had hoped.They learned
from their mistakes and planted Ubster in a much more
(24)____and organized way.There were also far more
(25)____immigrants from Scotland to Ubster than to other
parts of Ireland.
Religion has been an indication,for nearly 300
years,of whether someone is a (26)____of the colonizers
or the colonized.Throughout this time,certain sectors of
each(27)____have kept separate from each other,growing
up with a mixture of history and emotional (28)____which
helps keep hostility alive.
Acting under pressure from the Protestant
community,who had formed an army to defend their right to remain part of Great Britain,(29)____.
Under this new State,Catholics suffered various

