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State & history

What destroyed the potato crop and caused the Great Famine in Ireland from 1845?

  • A A ten-year drought
  • ✓ Potato blight, a plant disease
  • ✕ A plague of locusts Your answer
  • D A volcanic ash cloud

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Potato blight ruined harvests from 1845, and many people depended on potatoes for food. About one million people died and about another million emigrated.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Great Famine (Ireland); National Archives of Ireland

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