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Famine - Causes
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History (Famine) Mind Map on Famine - Causes, created by oconnormedb on 04/05/2013.
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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.
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