Push Factors
This crop died and was a major push factor for immigration.
What are potatoes?
Irish immigrants identified as this religion.
What is catholic?
Irish people immigrated in these kinds of groups during the periods right before the Civil War.
What are entire Irish families?
The Know-Nothings and nativism.
What is 19th century anti-Irish Catholic Party and its ideology?
This allowed Irish Americans to have a political voice despite discrimination in the 1800s.
What is the right to vote?
In the mid 1800s, this many Irish people relied on food pantries.
What is 3 million?
This attack occurred in 1844.
What were the bible riots?
Common destinations in the US for Irish immigrants.
When Irish immigrants received the right to vote in America.
What is suffrage was given immediately after immigrating?
Irish immigrants typically lived here, leading to a demographic preference of rural and suburban areas in the modern day.
Where are mill towns and rural areas?
This was the nickname for ships that transported immigrants.
What are coffin ships?
This political party gained Irish support.
What is the democratic party?
These were the job conditions for Irish immigrants in America.
What is poor, low wages, physical/unskilled labor?
This is Bloody Monday.
What is an Anti-Irish riot that killed at least 22 people?
This Irish American tradition is still very relevant in the US and politicians took advantage of them to sway votes.
What are St. Patrick's Day parades?
Percentage of potatoes that were destroyed over 7 more years after the first year of the famine.
What is 75%
Percentage of the American population who were Catholic in 1906 (hint it was after the immigration).
What is 17%?
This many Irish people immigranted to the US from the mid 1800s to the Civil War (%)
What is 1/4 of Ireland's population, or 1/3 of America's immigrant?
The year/decade that Irish were first seen in American public office.
What were the 1880's?
There are this many Irish Americans in the US. (%)
What is 10%?
What is Phytophthora infestans?
This city was burned in an anti-Irish/anti-Catholic fight.
Where is Philadelphia?
Irish stereotypes of the time.
What are drunkards, apes, and insurrectionists?
The 13th American president who disliked "foreign catholics" (Irish).
Who was Millard Fillmore?
Irish immigration contributed significantly to population growth in the 20th century. This percentage of immigrants from 1840-1860 were from Ireland.
What is 40%?