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Potato Famine
Reasons To Emigrate and Journey To U.S.
Treatment In U.S
Integration Into Society
Famous Irish Americans (Background Knowledge)
100
The color that the potato plants turned when infected by the disease.
What is black?
100
The famine of these was one of the biggest reasons for Irish to emigrate, from which stemmed many other push factors.
What are potatoes?
100
A line that was included in some job advertisements in the mid to late 1800s.
What is "No Irish Need Apply"?
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 Potato Famine starts.
What is 1845?
200
One excuse landlords in Ireland thought up to kick peasants off of their land.
What is debt? (other answers could be acceptable)
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
The number of miles a week the disease was estimated to spread in the second year of the famine.
What is 50?
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
The percent that the total potato yield dropped in the second year of the famine.
What is 500%?
500
The fraction of Irish are estimated to have died on board ships to North America of diseases such as typhus.
What is one-fifth?
500
3 jobs that Irish immigrants did in America.
What are railroad, bridge, and road construction, chambermaids, cooks, servants, stable workers?
500
The description by many for the jobs the Irish had taken up.
What is "fit for slaves?"
500
This person declared he would "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee".
Who is Muhammad Ali?