HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Their belief that all people were created equal
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Ireland experiencing a deplorable potato famine
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America providing money to recent immigrants to help them provide for their families
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Ireland erupting in a religious civil war
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Carrie Healy, NEPR: When the Irish were suffering from famine, they encountered bitterness from their neighbors and trade partners, the British. But Americans-the people of Massachusetts-rallied and collected donated money, goods and food to ship to Ireland in 1847.
Detailed explanation-3: -Before it ended in 1852, the Potato Famine resulted in the death of roughly one million Irish from starvation and related causes, with at least another million forced to leave their homeland as refugees.
Detailed explanation-4: -Irish Famine and Emigration Mass evictions, the near-famines of 1861-1864 and 1879-82, and the hardships of subsistence farming meant emigration to North America continued to be seen as an opportunity to support and improve life.
Detailed explanation-5: -Great Famine, also called Irish Potato Famine, Great Irish Famine, or Famine of 1845–49, famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845–49 when the potato crop failed in successive years. The crop failures were caused by late blight, a disease that destroys both the leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant.