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"or hundreds of years the people of Ireland irotested at being ruled from London, and ven after the Act of Union of 1801 cam-iaigners demanded home rule. In 1914, fter much opposition from the House of x>rds in Westminster, a Home Rule Act ras passed, but it was declared suspended or the duration of World War I. The Prot-stants in northern Ireland opposed home ule because it would leave them in a ninority in a Roman Catholic land.

Svlvest February, Gregory replied by excommuni-asked E Henry, depriving him of his right to rule, i convir bsolving his subjects from their oath of meet tleace- The German nobility, who had grown icct Al'' under Henry's rule, immediately met at it seen' and demanded that he submit to the nd Romi ^ he refused, they would elect another •y'g resii him) a]1"* lv at Canossa.

The scramble for colonies among European powers in the late 1800s led to outside control of Africa. At the start of World War II only three African countries were independent: Liberia, Egypt, and South Africa. After the war Africans in all countries demanded self-rule.