Vocabulary
Ellis Island
Diseases of the 1800s
Ireland Today
The Great Potato Famine
100
Causing someone to suffer.
What is persecution?
100
What Ellis Island was called.
What is The Hospital of the Nations.
100
Any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting.
What is blight?
100
One of the great world renowned Irish holidays.
What is St. Patrick's Day?
100
The number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster.
What is death toll?
200
Leave one's country of residence for a new one.
What is emigrate?
200
The continent where most immigrants came from.
What is Europe.
200
An infection of intestines marked by severe diarrhea.
What is dysentery?
200
The continent that Ireland is located in.
What is Europe?
200
The condition of having reduced number of inhabitants.
What is depopulation?
300
A farmer who works on land owned by someone else.
What is a tenant farmer?
300
A mark given to 1 out of 5 to show that they might have disease.
What is a chalk mark.
300
Rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever.
What is typhus?
300
A popular bread in Ireland.
What is soda bread?
300
Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
What is an emigrant?
400
Science dealing with the circulation of goods and services.
What is economics?
400
A body of people coming to another country.
What is immigration.
400
A chronic contagious viral disease marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and formation of scar tissue.
What is trachoma?
400
34.5 million people
What is the amount of Irish Americans?
400
The body of people coming to a country.
What is immigration?
500
The cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship.
What is steerage?
500
The reason why so many Irish emigrated during the 1840s.
What is the Great Potato Famine?
500
An infectious bacterial disease characterized by the growth of nodules in the tissues, especially the lungs.
What is tuberculosis?
500
About 5,000,000 people.
What is the current population of Ireland?
500
The state of having little or no possessions.
What is poverty?
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