Reasons to Move/Fun Facts
What were the living conditions like in the east?
What are bad, rundown, horrible working conditions?
True or False: The Irish were rich coming into America
What is False?
What was the main reason the Irish left Ireland?
What is the Potato Famine?
Were the Irish Catholic or Protestant?
What is Catholic?
What opportunities in America attracted Irish immigrants?
What are jobs in the east, a chance at a new life?
True or False: The horrible challenges they faced caused them to leave America
What is False?
How did the famine start?
What is there was a fungus which infected all their potatoes?
Were the Americans happy about the Irish immigrating to America?
What is no
What was the push factor from the east?
What is overcrowding?
What were their living conditions in Ireland, causing them to move?
What is difficult?
What number wave of immigration was this period for Irish people coming to America?
What is the 2nd?
Why did the Americans think the Irish were going to ruin America?
What is they were seen as lazy alcoholics?
How many estimated Irish immigrants arrived in America in the 19th century?
What is 4.5 million? (IF your answer is within a 1-million radius, you get half points)
How did their living conditions contribute to their health?
What is it caused disease?
What is the number of years it took to accumulate a million bodies due to the famine in Ireland
What is 5 years?
Why were the Irish blamed for the spread of diseases?
What is they lived in overpopulated areas?
What fraction of the immigrants in America between 1820-1860 were Irish? (Ex: 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2)
What is 1/3?
What is the name of the process in which a minority assumes the culture and values of a majority to fit in with society?
What is assimilation?
What year did the Potato Famine start?
What is 1845? (A radius of 5 years will get you half points)
Why did America not like that the Irish were Catholic?
What is they were Protestant?