The Great Famine
Reasons To Emigrate and Journey To U.S.
Treatment In U.S
Integration Into Society
Famous Irish Americans (Background Knowledge)
100
The food that the Irish people would rely on during the 1800's.
What are Potatoes?
100
This caused 750,000 Irish people to die of starvation and the rest immigrated to the U.S.
What was the Great Famine?
100
This is what the Bostonians thought the Irish people were when they finally reached the U.S.
What are slaves?
100
The main war the Irish immigrants fought in, it began just ten years after the Great Famine ended.
What is the Civil War?
100
The long list of people with Irish heritage include this current president.
Who is Barack Obama?
200
The year that the Irish Great Famine starts.
What is 1845?
200
This is when one person can't get an occupation
What is unemployment?
200
A reason why many of the Irish immigrants were forced to do hard labor if they wanted a job.
What is lack of etiquette? What is lack of knowledge of modern technology? What is discrimination? (other answers may be accepted)
200
This group led a nativist movement to end influence of immigrant groups in the United States.
What is the Know Nothing Party?
200
This person created Mickey Mouse, Magic Kingdom, and many more well known figures/places.
Who is Walt Disney?
300
The fraction of potatoes lost to the disease, as estimated in 1845 by the British Prime Minister's scientists.
What is half?
300
The name given to the leaky ships that brought Irish by the hundreds to North America.
What are 'Coffin Ships'?
300
The Irish's approximate position on the social ladder in the eyes of most Americans.
What is the bottom?
300
For this reason, many Irish immigrants supported the South during the Civil War.
What is job competition? (other answers are acceptable)
300
This Irish American plays quarterback for the New England Patriots.
Who is Tom Brady?
400
This was the amount of Irish people who died during the Great Famine, caused by the failure of potatoes.
What is 750,000 people?
400
The city that most ships filled with Irish immigrants sailed to.
What is Quebec?
400
A place in most U.S. cities with large populations of Irish where the Irishmen would live together.
What is an "Irish Town"?
400
Two reasons why later on, many employers favored Irish employees over others.
What is hardworking and honest?
400
This man acted as Indiana Jones.
Who is Harrison Ford?
500
This the color that the potatoes turned after they were going bad, which caused the Great Famine
What is the color black?
500
This is when you are not receiving or offering much pay.
What is low payment?
500
The is what the Irish people begged for when they finally made it to the U.S.
What is food?
500
These were the names the Irish people were called while they were first in the U.S.
What were Micks, Paddys, and Bridgets
500
This person declared he would "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee".
Who is Muhammad Ali?
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