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Irish Potato Famine

The Gold Rush

Pogroms

It was hard times for the irish.

The Chinese were getting trough

Hard times for the Jewish.

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being discrimination.

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By: Zelma

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THE IRISH POTATO FAMINE
Introduction
The potato famine was the worst time for the irish.
You might be wondering how this affects everybody? Well
Im going to tell you. It happened in the year 1845 - 1855
in Ireland. It was terrible.
Potatoes Disease and effect
Once the fungus on the leaves of potatoes were
spreading the irish had have to make so many sacrifices,
for like example they had to watch as their house burned
drowned or got destroyed because they got evicted from
their homes and once they have eaten all their animals
they needed to eat snails,seaweed and grass for them to not
starve to death. And over 1 million people died and over 1
million people emigrated.

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The irish were

facing a hard
time throughout
the time of the
Irish potato
Famine.
Thousands of
Irish People died
of hunger .

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THE GOLD RUSH
Chinese in China
In 18848 - 1882 the gold was discovered in
California, USA The word spreaded and it soon
got to China. And when the Chinese arrived to
California the European immigrants were really
rude to the Chinese immigrants. The Chinese
immigrants were facing discrimination.

Chinese Travel
Before they can even get to America they
needed a way to get there so then The Chinese
had a eight week boat trip.
It was a long time, they would get more tired each
and each day.

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The Gold Rush

was a hard and
incredible
Journey for the
Chinese
immigrants.

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RUSSIANS BLAME JEWISH
In the early 1900s the Russian government was in
turmoil.They had lost a war in japan and had overthrown
the last czar. Financial problems where blamed on the
Jewish people. Attacks called pogroms were carried out
against Jewish homes and business. Many were killed and
many escapade to other countries.
In the late 1800s and the early 1900s Russia was at war
with Japan. They spend a lot of money on this war. The
Russian people people were not happy with Czar Nicholas
11 and had his family executed. Troubles in Russia
continued. Spies were placed in Russian villages to blame
Russians problem.
In villages, people attacked Jewish homes and
businesses. Thousands of Jewish people were killed. Those
that could, fled the country. Many first escaped to
countries like Poland and then emigrated to countries like
Canada and the United States Of America.
In Countries like Canada and the USA the Jewish
people were free to own and run businesses and to practice
their religion.

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Businesses attacked
The Russian
government, after
the fall of Czar
Nicholas 11, boomed
problems on the
jewish people.
Jewish businesses
and homes were
killed and many
emigrated to other
countries.