C-box:What disaster caused a million starving immigrants to flee to the United States in the 1840s?
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Correct:Irish Potato Famine*QS110602.AIF*
Wrong 1:World War I
Wrong 2:The Black Death
Wrong 3:The Dust Bowl
Wrong 4:The Crusades
Wrong 5:The Inquisition
Wrong 6:The Cold War
Wrong 7:The African Famine
Wrong 8:World War II
GeoByte1:The potato famine started thousands of miles from Ireland. In 1844 a disease attacked potato plants in North America and destroyed the entire potato crop!
GeoByte2:When Irish peasants harvested their potato crops in 1845, all they pulled from the soil were blackened, rotten potatoes that were completely inedible.
GeoByte3:The Irish poor who could scrape up enough money to book passage on ships headed for the United States and Canada escaped certain starvation in Ireland.
GeoByte4:The potato blight continued for six years, killing over a million and a half people. Another million fled Ireland.
GeoByte5:By the end of the famine, Ireland had lost one in every four of its citizens (over 2-1/2 million people) to either death or emigration.
GeoByte6:The problem of burying the hundreds of thousands of famine victims created an outbreak of several life-threatening diseasesΓÇötyphus, cholera and dysentery.
