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We entered a cabin. Stretched in one dark corner, scarcely visible, from the smoke and rags that covered them, were three children huddled together, lying there because they were too weak to rise, pale and ghastly, their little limbs—on removing a portion of the filthy covering—perfectly emaciated, eyes sunk, voice gone, and evidently in the last stage of actual starvation.

-William Bennett (quoted in The Peoples of Ireland)

� Thoughts?

� 1847 – how could this happen?

� What does Europe look like at that point?

� Why were these people left to die?

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2. Graded class work today

3. You need a blank sheet of paper

By the end of class are objectives are to: - Analyze the conditions in Ireland during the famine period through the use of historical documents - Compare and contrast perspectives on the Great Famine

EQ: What impact did Industrialization have on 19th century Europe?

Tonight’s Homework: Read & Outline p. 682 and p. 71 0 (chart)

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What is the Great Famine Evidence of?

The Great FamineIn the 1840s, Ireland experienced

one of the worst famines in modern history. For many years, Irish peasants had depended on potatoes as virtually their sole source of food. From 1845 to 1848, a plant fungus ruined nearly all of Ireland’s potato crop. Out of a population of 8 million, about a million people died of starvation and disease.

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� If you are starving what could make life worse?

�How could the industrialized and wealthy nation of Great Britain allow the Irish to suffer?

-Act of Union (1801) created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

�What does laissez-faire have to do with this situation?

�Was this genocide?-deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group

Before beginning your work, a few more thoughts and facts:• Irish peasants were forced to export the grain they

grew in order to pay their high rents– This left the potato as their main source of food

• English and Scottish Protestants controlled Ireland – Most Irish were Catholic– The Irish were forced to pay taxes to the Anglican Church

• Most Irish wanted to rule themselves– Wanted independence from British Parliament

• Emigration means leaving your country to settle in another

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Your Task:• OPVL

–At least 4• Answer

–What does the Great Famine tell us about history? (what is it evidence of?)

–How does POV (point of view) influence our study of history?

–What effects did the Great Famine have on Ireland, Europe, and the world?

–To what extent was the Great Famine notcaused by plant fungus?

Objectives: • Analyze the conditions in Ireland during

the famine period through the use of historical documents

• Compare and contrast perspectives on the Great Famine