What Was The Influence Of People In The 19th Century

Have you ever wondered how the Irish Potato Famine started or what farmers used when they got it. Did the physical environment play a part in the fungus carrying to the potatoes? What did the people do when all of their potatoes were gone? the answer to the question is the Irish famine was carried from a ship in the cool, moist environment made the blight thrive for that reason the potato crops were affected and they needed to import food from different countries.

In the early 1800s life in Ireland wasn’t easy, Irish citizens got by day to day by farming and relying on the potato. The potato was their main source of food and money. With out the potato the Irish would have nothing. No one was prepared for what was about to happen in 1845, the beginning of the Great Irish Potato Famine.

The movement of people in the 18th and 19th centuries has always been an impact and a major part of our world. The migration was either forced or a choice made by the individual its self. The development of agriculture and industry in a few European countries, North America and Australia caused migration and an increase of population. Many settlers migrated either because of a crime, slavery and blackbirding, or, because they were seeking a better lifestyle, opportunities and religious freedom.

     Nineteenth-century Ireland was the most densely populated country in Europe: in 1800, its population was 4.5 million, and by 1841, it had risen to eight million (Kinealy 15). Yet much of this population existed in condition of sorrow and misery lay in the dependence of the peasantry on just one staple crop, the potato; in western countries like Mayo and Galway, nine-tenths of the people ate nothing else (MacManus 602). Here was a disaster waiting to happen, made worst by the rapid rise in population in the first half of the century which forced the peasants to subsist on smaller plots of land (O Grada, The Great Irish Famine 63).

The Irish began immigrating to North America in the 1820s, when the lack of jobs and poverty forced them to seek better opportunities elsewhere after the end of the major European wars. When the Europeans could finally stop depending on the Irish for food during war, the investment in Irish agricultural products reduced and the boom was over. After an economic boom, there comes a bust and unemployment was the result. Two-thirds of the people of Ireland depended on potato harvests as a main source of income and, more importantly, food. Then between the years of 1845 and 1847, a terrible disease struck the potato crops. The plague left acre after acre of Irish farmland covered with black rot. The failure of the

More than a million Irish people died during The Irish Potato famine that hit Ireland between 1845 to 1849 (Pollard, pg. 551). Potatoes were the primary diet of the Irish, especially the Irish Lump potato. When the fungal disease hit, known as “potato blight,” the Irish potato crops were lost. After reading primary sources regarding the Irish Potato Famine, the reader can visualize the horrors that the Irish people endured during the famine including starvation, the physical and the mental effects that go along with it, the loss of family members, and especially witnessing their children starve and die. Both W. Stewart Trench and William Bennett had the purpose and intent of recording

The Irish Potato Famine was a devastating event that caused a huge amount of emigration from Ireland. By 1840, approximately one-third of the entire population of Ireland was completely dependent on the potato as their only supply of food. Because of this dependence on the potato, one could say it was a ticking time-bomb. These people did not have access to another food source. It started when a blight rampaged the potato crops in Ireland. The blight began to take over Ireland’s potato supply in September of 1845. This blight was brought ashore from cargo holds of ships arriving into Ireland. In the year of 1845

“It must be understood that we cannot feed the people” (Kinealy Calamity 75). The mid 1800s in Ireland were characterized by extreme poverty, death, and emigration. The Great Potato Famine, also known as “The Great Hunger,” first hit in 1845; however, its effects lasted into the 1850s and can still be seen today. Prior to the famine, Irish manufacture and trade was controlled and suppressed by British government, which made Ireland an extremely poor country. Farmers in Ireland were forced to export crops such as corn, wheat, and oats to Britain, which left the potato as the main dietary staple for the people, especially the poor. Therefore, when

The Irish potato famine was the biggest mass starvation of a population to ever hit Irealand. From 1845 to 1850 this was the biggest mass death equivalent to a mass genocide. The potato blight disease that took over the irish potato was so prevelent that it caused 2 million deaths in Irealand. The actual famine began in 1846, the blight disease had attacked the potato more aggressively this particular year than the years prior. The potato stalks blackened the leaves rotted and the stench became noticable and unbearing. With all of the sights and smells the summer season took off with devastation of a potato that held such a high standard within the irish population. Shortage of the irish potato seed began and the decline of profits per square acreage was more paved in the dissolution of relationships between farmers and their laborers. Due to the blight, money wages then became a war with the laborers that once were called priveledged, such as, a cabin or a patch of potato ground in exchange for work performed. This then caused uproar with the farmers who refused to make cash payments to the laborers to surrender their plots. Massive default by unbound laborers payment in the autumn taught

The Irish Potato Famine began in 1845 and lasted until 1849. The famine occurred when the potato crop failed to grow in consecutive 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. The causative agent of late blight is water mold. The Irish Potato Famine was the worst famine to occur in Europe in the 19th century.

In this period of time, citizens of Ireland suffered in countless ways. A disease so-called Blight is a disease on crops that caused a catastrophic effect on the Irish since the Irish significantly depended on potatoes. Potatoes provided a non-expensive and healthy diet for many of the folks, in fact, for two-thirds of the entire population of Ireland; potatoes were an essential to their nourishment. In the summer of 1845, residents shortly noticed that after the potatoes were dug out; they were decayed, forming a slimy texture and blackish color. Experts at first suggested that the cause was because of the smokes that arose from nearby railroad trains or fumes that rose from underground volcanos. In spite of that, the actual source of this unusual sighting was because of an airborne fungus that had travelled from Mexico to Ireland. Blight had caused the Irish’s blessed potatoes, to rot underground causing a shortage

In 1845 Ireland was struck by a natural disaster which would eventually wipe out an eighth of the population. This became known as the potato famine, which lasted between 1845-1849. A mysterious blight attacked the potato crop, destroying the only real food of Ireland’s rural population. The blight caused by a mildew like fungus called Phytophthora infestans that infects the potato foliage and its tubers. Many believed the blight was caused by rainy, cool weather, which caused the potato to turn black and die. The blight attacked again and again over the next five years. Ireland’s population dropped by two million, which is twenty-five percent of the total population between the years of the famine. One million people died from starvation and

The 19th century had many important breakthroughs for worker and the whole health care industry leading up to present day. The social factors that promoted managed care in the 19th century are some insurances offered insurance policies to cover the cost of care for workplace accidents and employee disability, (Kongstvedt, 2013). This was highly beneficial and has helped infinite employers cover have insurances plans in place for employees who get hurt on the job. Employees have the worker’s compensation or disability to cover the cost of on the job injuries and receive compensation for them. Another social factor that influenced the 19th century was the 1937 Group Health Association which started in Washington, D.C.

After the discovery of the New World and the introduction of the potato to Europe, the Irish population found their miracle crop. The potato saved and doubled a once dwindling population to nine million people. Three of the nine million relied on the potato for their sole source of food and by 1846, crisis fell over Ireland. The potato crop contracted Blight, a disease brought over to Ireland accidentally from America. The disease killed all the crops and lead to the great famine of Ireland which rippled into the death of most of the population. However, before the famine, many other factors lead the Irish to their emigration to America. Religious persecution caused many of the Irish to seek a better life. Due to the Penal Laws, Irish Catholics

Nationalism and romanticism were both ideals used to influence people of the 19th century. Nationalism is a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups (Merriam Dictionary). Romanticism is a style of art, literature, etc., during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that emphasized the imagination and emotions (Merriam Dictionary). While romanticism and nationalism differ, both were used hand in hand for political, social, and intellectual reasons in 19th century revolutions, ruling, and literature.