The Great Famine

What does the word Famine mean?

• A period of industrial change

• A period of bad weather

• A severed shortage of food

Between which years did the Great Famine occur?

• 1800-1820

• 1845-1850

• 1945-1950

• 1798-1800

What important crop was affected by blight, leading to the famine?

• The potato crop

• The onion crop

• Corn

• Wheat

What was the population of Ireland in 1841, just prior to the famine?

• About 8 million

• About 10 million

• About 4 million

• About 2 million

What was a cottier during this time in Ireland

• A poor individual

• A small farmer

• A worker that rented an acre of land and in return worked for farmers.

• A wealthy farmer who owned a lot of land.

Landless labourers were the poorest people in Ireland in 1840.

• True

• False

A ____________ was where poor people went to be lodged and sent to work during the Famine.

Name one of the causes of the Great Irish Famine.

The sub-division of land made farms ____________.

the British Government important Indian _________to Ireland to help the starving Irish.