MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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the Onion Famine, which was affecting sales.
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the Potato Famine, which was damaging food crops.
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the outbreak of civil war.
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the outbreak of the Plague.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The potato late blight pathogen was introduced to Europe in the 1840s and caused the devastating loss of a staple crop, resulting in the Irish potato famine and subsequent diaspora.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ireland’s peasants were dependent on potatoes, and it was a major part of their diet. People were so dependent on potatoes that hundreds of thousands died of starvation in the mid-1840s when disease destroyed the potato crop. This tragedy is known as the Great Famine or the Irish Potato Famine.
Detailed explanation-3: -It decimated Ireland’s population, which stood at about 8.5 million on the eve of the Famine. It is estimated that the Famine caused about 1 million deaths between 1845 and 1851 either from starvation or hunger-related disease. A further 1 million Irish people emigrated.
Detailed explanation-4: -Between 1845 and 1855 more than 1.5 million adults and children left Ireland to seek refuge in America. Most were desperately poor, and many were suffering from starvation and disease. They left because disease had devastated Ireland’s potato crops, leaving millions without food.