The Famine Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• famine : a time when there is very little food and many people starve.
• subdivision : when land is split into smaller and smaller parts.
• absentee landlord : a landowner who lives far away and doesn’t visit their land.
• labourer : a person who works hard with their hands, often on farms.
• cottier : a poor person who rented a small piece of land to grow potatoes.
• tenant farmer : someone who rents land from a landlord to farm.
• agent : a person who collected rent from farmers for the landlord.
• potato : the main food that people in ireland ate before the famine.
• weaving : making cloth by crossing threads over and under each other.
• blight : a disease that caused potatoes to rot in the ground.
• black 47 : the worst year of the famine, when the most people died (1847).
• north america : the country that the blight came from
• evicted : when people were forced to leave their homes for not paying rent.
• sir robert peel : the british prime minister who tried to help during the famine.
• flint corn : another name for the hard indian corn sent to ireland.
• cholera : a deadly disease spread by dirty water during the famine.
• malnutrition : when your body doesn’t get enough good food to stay healthy.