Irish Potato Famine & Migration

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Across
  1. 4. Sending goods, such as food, out of a country even during a famine.
  2. 6. Movement advocating for a Jewish homeland; contemporaneous with other nationalist movements of the era.
  3. 8. Ruling empire during the Irish Potato Famine, criticized for inadequate relief efforts.
  4. 9. Country devastated by the potato blight during the 19th century.
  5. 10. ______ Rotation Farming method of alternating crops to preserve soil fertility, neglected in potato farming.
  6. 11. aka America Destination for many Irish immigrants fleeing famine and seeking opportunities.
  7. 12. _______houses Harsh institutions where the poor were sent to live and work during the famine.
Down
  1. 1. ________ Blight Disease that destroyed potato crops, leading to mass starvation.
  2. 2. _______ Farmers Agricultural laborers renting land from wealthy landowners, common in 19th-century Ireland.
  3. 3. The scattering of Irish people worldwide due to famine and hardship.
  4. 5. ______ Famine Catastrophic period in Ireland caused by widespread crop failure in the 1840s.
  5. 7. Movement of people from one region to another.