The book Gloomy Memories counters Harriet Beecher Stowe’s description of these events as “almost sublime” in the travelogue Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands. A 2018 book by T. M. Devine analyzes these events’ historical impact on the baile (“BAHL-ee”). After he led one of these events, Patrick Sellar was acquitted of arson and homicide charges. A cause of these events was the introduction of “new breeds” like the Blackface and the Cheviot (“SHEH-vee-ut”). Kelp farming became popular among those subjected to these events, whose most notorious instance was instigated by the Countess of Sutherland. These events were ended by the Crofters Holdings Act. These events began after the Battle of Culloden (“kuh-LAH-din”) according to a book that tells “how sheep were preferred to” members of the traditional clan system. For 10 points, what events evicted Gaelic tenants from their land in Scotland? ■END■
ANSWER: Highland Clearances [or Scottish Clearances; accept Sutherland Clearances; prompt on Scottish enclosure movement; prompt on evictions of tenants or word forms until read; prompt on displacement of Scottish people or resettlement of Scottish tenants or similar answers; reject “Lowland Clearances”]
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