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WorksheetsThe Great Irish Famine 1845-1850
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 7mins
What does the word Famine mean?
A period of industrial change
A period of bad weather
A severed shortage of food
Between which years did the Great Famine occur?
1800-1820
1845-1850
1945-1950
1798-1800
What important crop was affected by blight, leading to the famine?
The potato crop
The onion crop
Corn
Wheat
What was the population of Ireland in 1841, just prior to the famine?
About 8 million
About 10 million
About 4 million
About 2 million
What was a cottier during this time in Ireland
A poor individual
A small farmer
A worker that rented an acre of land and in return worked for farmers.
A wealthy farmer who owned a lot of land.
Landless labourers were the poorest people in Ireland in 1840.
True
False
A (a) was where poor people went to be lodged and sent to work during the Famine.
Name one of the causes of the Great Irish Famine.
The sub-division of land made farms (a) .
the British Government important Indian (a) to Ireland to help the starving Irish.
The British Government also set up soup (a) during the Famine.
Which of these were British Ministers during the Great famine?
Sir Robert Peel
Sir John Russell
Winston Churchill
William Gladstone
Sir John Russell, the British Prime Minister believed in the policy of 'laissez- (a) , meaning that government should interfere as little as possible in the economy of a nation.
How many emigrated form Ireland during the Great Famine?
200,000
1 million
5 million
150,000
How many Irish people died during the Great Irish Famine?
5 million
2 million
1 million
Write down one consequence of the Great Irish Famine in Ireland.
What word refers to 'ethnic Irish people and their descendants who live outside the island of Ireland'.
Old Irish
Irish in America
Irish diaspora
