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100
Main reason people wanted leave Ireland in the 1840s

What is the Famine?

100

Number of Irish emigrants 1801-1921

What is c. eight million?

100
Other name for "American Money"

What is remittance?

100

Type of text the Devine reading originates from

What is a book?

100

The Authors surnames

What is Fitzpatrick and Devine?

200

Major change to land management law worsened conditions for rural poor in both countries

What is the ban of small-holding creation?

200

Post-famine, the fraction of family of six children that would inherit or marry in Ireland

What is one-third?

200

The structure of the Scottish economy during the nineteenth century

What is industrialised economy?

200

Type of text the Fitzpatrick reading originates from

What is a pamphlet?

200
Devine refers to Scottish emigration as

What is a paradox?

300

The labour problem Scottish emigration caused for Scottish society

What is a "brain drain"?

300
Fraction of Scottish returning to Scotland in the later nineteenth century

What is one-third?

300

Critical technological shift that shortened the Atlantic crossing from six weeks to one

What is the transport revolution?

300
The referencing style used by Devine
What is endnotes?
300

"Growing up in Ireland meant... "

What is "preparing oneself to leave it"?

400

These Irish organisations were enabled by the British state to fund the emigration of nearly 45,000 "paupers and potential paupers". 

What is the Boards of Guardians?

400

Australian-Irish were more likely to bring over...

What is friends or distant connections?
400

Amount sent back the the UK by North American emigrants between 1848 and 1887

What is £34,000,000? 

400

A key characteristic of Fitzpatrick's style of analysis to support his argument

What is quantitive analysis?

400

By 1900 the economic system in the west of Scotland could be known as... 

What is the "Workshop of the British Empire"?

500

This 1823-1825 state scheme removed over 2,300 people from Munster to Canada to relieve land hunger and "agarian discontent"

What is the Peter Robinson scheme?

500

The year Scotland topped the comparative emigration table

What is 1913

500

Percent lower Scottish wages were compared to English wages in 1860

What is 20%?

500

Devine relies on comparative tables compiled by this scholar to rank Scotland, Ireland and Norway at the top of European emigration table between 1861-1913

Who is Dudley Baines?

500

This social and inheritance structure meant surplus children were effectively "reared as potential emigrants"

What is the "stem family" system?