The Irish Americans #2

comments

1. The main reason for the Irish emigrating from Ireland was the massive economic problems.
2. The Famine may have been at its worse in 1740-41.
3. Many of the people that sayed in Ireland wrote to those who went to American about the terrible times they were having.
4. The crash of the linnen industry in 1729 also caused a big flush of the Irsh to imigrate to Ireland.
5. Not only were the people leaving Ireland because of the terrible contitions that they were all living under, they were leavin because America was advrtising how great of a place it was.

Questions

1. Why did the crops fail?
2. Why did the linen indusrty fail?
3. What made america the place to go?
4. How would the Irish fit in?

Vocabulary

1. Gaelic- A Celtic language
2. provincialism- a narrow minded person
3. Puritan- a religion

Literary terms

1. "....they were more like sevants..." similie
2. "... an Irish Catholic was as rare as snow in july..." similie

Over view

1. This section of the book spoke mainly about how the Irsih came over and started speekin about how they were treated.

the irish american #1

comments
1. Religion was a majior part of the history of Ireland.
2. When Protestants won the Battle of Boyne River it sent Catholics into a religious upheaval.
3. After the Protestants took over Catholics where horribly mistreated.
4. It was so bad at one point Catholics were forbbiden to buy land or vote.
5. The law againts Catholics called the penal laws were to difficult to enforce so the church survived.

questions
1. Why did the Protestants hate the Catholics?
2. Why did the Penal Laws exist in the first place?
3. How much of a psychologicalimpact did the Catholic's inferior status have on the members of the clergy?
4. If the religious oppression wasn't the main reason for the Irish emigration what was?

vocabulary
1. officiating
2. catalyst
3. exodus

to be contiued.......