The famine.

Question 1

who owned most of the land in ireland in 1840

Answer 1

landlords

Question 2

who did they rent their land to?

Answer 2

tenent farmers

Question 3

what was the population in the 1840s?

Answer 3

8 million

Question 4

how many people starved to death in 4 years?

Answer 4

1 million

Question 5

how manty imigrated to america

Answer 5

1 million

Question 6

4 causes of the famine

Answer 6

blight, rise n population, dependence on potato, subdicision of land

Question 7

what dis fathers do with their land?

Answer 7

fathers usually subdivided their land between their sons

Question 8

what food was ireland dependent on for 4 million families?

Answer 8

potato

Question 9

what did meals consit of?

Answer 9

2kg of potatos and skinned milk

Question 10

what did the British government do

Answer 10

they ordered the importation of 100,000 worth of indian corn to ireland and set up soup kitchens

Question 11

how long was the soup kitchens around for?

Answer 11

6 months

Question 12

what was the fall in poulation

Answer 12

the population fell by atleast 2 million between 1845 and 1851.

Question 13

who were worst hit?

Answer 13

cottiers and agricultural laboures.

Question 14

what did Emigration cause

Answer 14

the irish diaspora

Question 15

who got the land when the subdivison ended?

Answer 15

the eldest son

Question 16

where did daughters go after the subdivison went?

Answer 16

they where forced to imigrate?

Question 17

what happened to result in larger farms?

Answer 17

clearence of estaes

Question 18

what part of ireland was hit hardest with the decline of irish langage?

Answer 18

west and south west

Question 19

what did successful emigrants give to republicans?

Answer 19

money and arms for further rising.

Question 20

What was blight?

Answer 20

Blight was a disease spread throughout Irish potato.

Question 21

what were workhouses?

Answer 21

Workhouses were places broke families went to, Families where split up in wokhouse which was off putting for most families

Question 22

What disease did Irish people pick up during the famine?

Answer 22

Typhus and yellow fever

Question 23

What was the main country that emigrants went to?

Answer 23

America

Question 24

What where the ships emigrants sailed?

Answer 24

Coffin ships

Question 25

What was the Irish Diaspora?

Answer 25

was when there was a large amount of poeple emigrating out of the country