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Irish Migrants 1750-1900

Authored by Jim Hudson

History

8th Grade

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Irish Migrants 1750-1900
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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What crop had the Irish Tenant farmers come to rely on by the start of the 19th Century?

Potatoes

Carrots

Wheat

Corn

Oats

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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Who owned most of the land in Ireland at this time?

Absentee English landlords

Catholic Irish Lords

Irish farmers

Rich Businessmen

The Monarch

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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What happened if tenant farmers could not pay their rent?

They were evicted

Forced to take out loans to cover the rent

Arrested

They chose to seek a new life

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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In what year did the Great Hunger begin?

1846

1847

1856

1861

1842

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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What effect did the Great Hunger have on Irish migration to mainland Britain?

It greatly increased it

It started it

It ended it

It made it slow down

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Roughly how many Irish migrated to mainland Britain between 1846-1850?

1 million
100 Thousand
1 Thousand
1.5 Billion
2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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Where did many of these Irish migrants want to go?

America

Australia

India

China

France

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