Push Factors - Highlands

Question 1

Agriculture

Answer 1

Plots of land were sub-divided between childrenThe soil was very rocky with not a lot of space age to grow

Question 2

Lack of food

Answer 2

1840 the potato blight occurred, although the brunt of the damage was done to Ireland it occurred in a lot of places around europe

Question 3

Unemployment

Answer 3

Jobs were hard to find in the highlands, many found work collecting kelp however they lost their job as foreign kelp was cheaper

Question 4

blackhouses

Answer 4

Highlanders often lived in balck houses and had to share houses with their animals

Question 5

illness

Answer 5

lots of people in the highlands had TB and weren’t able to get a doctor because they didn’t earn enough money or they had to travel hundreds of miles