Ireland's Troubles
Ireland grew this for themselves to eat.
What are potatoes?
This is where wheat grown in Ireland went.
Where is England?
The people of Acheh fought against the Dutch, using this type of warfare, rather than using an organized army on a regular battlefield. (ch. 9)
What is Guerilla?
Along with diamonds, huge deposits of this were found in South Africa.
What is gold?
The British called the war between Great Britain and the Afrikaners this.
What is the Boer War?
He was the British Prime Minister who insisted that the Corn Laws should be repealed?
Who was Robert Peel?
He was the British Prime Minister who asked Parliament to pass the Home Rule Bill?
Who was William Gladstone?
Before railroads changed the way people kept time, cities all over the world set their own clocks by looking at this. (ch. 8)
What is the sun?
When the British finally set the people of ___________ free, the tide of the battle had turned, and the Afrikaners began to surrender.
What are Mafeking?
This was dug out of the Big Hole.
What are diamonds?
This is what "perpetual coercion" means.
What is if the British went on running Ireland, they would always have to use force?
This disease killed all of the potatoes in Ireland for five years.
What is the blight? (or the Murrian)
Giuseppe Mazzini formed a secret society known as this. (ch. 4)
What is Young Italy?
After Great Britain took control of cities in the Transvaal and the Free State, this is how the British dealt with groups of Afrikaner guerillas.
What is they put families who were supplying the guerillas with food into camps?
Why is because they didn't have enough money to build large mines?
This describes the corn laws.
What is laws that said that anyone in Ireland or England who bought food from another country had to pay a huge tax on it?
This would have allowed the Irish to have control over issues that had to do with life in Ireland and did not affect the British.
What is the Home Rule Bill?
This is a constitutional monarchy. (ch. 7)
What is a country ruled by a king that follows a constitution?
This is what it meant "to Maffick".
What is to rejoice because after the British drove the Afrikaners away from Mafeking, parties were held all over Great Britain?
This is why the Afrikaners declared war on Great Britain.
Why is they could see that the British intended to take over Transvaal and the Free State?
This is why the Irish had not gotten along with the English for so many years.
What is most of the Irish were Catholic, and the Protestant kings and queens of England did not treat the Irish very well?
Describe the blight and why it affected Ireland so greatly.
What is the blight was a disease that killed all of the potatoes in Ireland for fie years? Many of the Irish lived on farms that were owned by British landlords, and most of the crops they grew were sold in England. When the potato crops died, the people of Ireland had nothing to eat. Almost 1 million died and another 1 million left their homes.
This is how the 13th Amendment to the Constitution changed the United States (ch. 5)
This was the result of the treaty known as the Peace of Vereeniging.
What is it united all of the South African colonies into one nation under British rule? Inside this country lived three groups that hated each other--white British, white Afrikaners, and black Africans.
This is why the Boers began to call themselves Afrikaners.
Why is to show they were no longer Dutch settlers, but rather Africans of European descent?