HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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corn
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no crop was ruined
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Potato
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squash
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Potato Crop Fails The disaster began in earnest in 1845 when the potato crop was destroyed by infestation with the fungal disease Phytophthora Infestans, better known as Potato Blight.
Detailed explanation-3: -The period of the potato blight in Ireland from 1845 to 1851 was full of political confrontation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Just a century earlier, a potato disease prompted a famine that halved Ireland’s population in a few years, producing a decades-long cascading effect of social and economic turmoil.