Highland Clearances

Target entity: Highland Clearances
Context triple: [Scottish Highlands, historicalEvent, Highland Clearances]

• A. Great Famine
  The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
• B. Plantation of Ulster
  The Plantation of Ulster was a 17th-century English and Scottish colonization project in northern Ireland that profoundly reshaped the region’s land ownership, demographics, and sectarian divisions.
• C. Bishops' Wars
  The Bishops' Wars were a pair of mid-17th-century conflicts between Charles I and Scotland over attempts to impose Anglican religious practices, helping trigger the broader Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
• D. Great Trek
  The Great Trek was a 19th-century migration of Dutch-speaking Afrikaner settlers who moved inland from the British-controlled Cape Colony to establish independent Boer republics in southern Africa.
• E. Dust Bowl
  The Dust Bowl was a devastating 1930s environmental disaster on the North American Great Plains, where severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms, crop failures, and widespread displacement of farming communities.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Highland Clearances
Target entity description: The Highland Clearances were a series of forced evictions and social upheavals in 18th- and 19th-century Scotland that displaced many Gaelic-speaking tenant farmers to make way for more profitable sheep farming and reshaped the culture and demographics of the Scottish Highlands.

• A. Great Famine
  The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
• B. Plantation of Ulster
  The Plantation of Ulster was a 17th-century English and Scottish colonization project in northern Ireland that profoundly reshaped the region’s land ownership, demographics, and sectarian divisions.
• C. Bishops' Wars
  The Bishops' Wars were a pair of mid-17th-century conflicts between Charles I and Scotland over attempts to impose Anglican religious practices, helping trigger the broader Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
• D. Great Trek
  The Great Trek was a 19th-century migration of Dutch-speaking Afrikaner settlers who moved inland from the British-controlled Cape Colony to establish independent Boer republics in southern Africa.
• E. Dust Bowl
  The Dust Bowl was a devastating 1930s environmental disaster on the North American Great Plains, where severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms, crop failures, and widespread displacement of farming communities.
• F. None of above. chosen