DO NOW: Multiple Choice Review November 1, 2016 Global II Agenda: DO NOW: Multiple Choice Review NOTES #16: How did imperialism affect Ireland? IMPERIALISM (IN AFRICA, INDIA, AND IRELAND) TEST TOMORROW MARKING PERIOD ENDS FRIDAY

How did imperialism affect Ireland? Notes #16

Beginning in the 1100s, Britain began controlling Ireland. Invasion of 1171

Under Britain’s rule, a majority of Ireland’s farmland was used to grow crops, such as oats and wheat, which were exported to Britain.

The Irish people grew potatoes as their main food crop.

However, from 1845 to 1849, Ireland’s potato crop experienced a failure. Potato blight

Britain continued to export Ireland’s other crops, leaving the Irish people without any food.

This potato famine led to a period of mass starvation in Ireland, during which over one million Irish people died . . .

. . . and millions of others migrated to Canada and the U.S..

Ireland eventually won its independence from Britain in 1922. Irish War of Independence (1919 – 1922)