Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Famine - Causes
- The raise in population - in 1841 the
population was more than 8 million
(A huge increase from the year
before)
- Pressure on food
- Pressure on job
- Pressure on land
- Pressure on money
- No food was left when potato crop was gone.
- No money to pay landlords
- Lost their homes
- Came in the wind from the west - america
- Weather - mild and moist (good
weather to carry blight)
- Potatoes in storage were
infected also
- Subdivision of land - no one had
enough land to plant anything but
potatoes
- Dependent on the potato crop.
Ate on average 7 lbs a day.