The middle classAs a job they were probably potato farm owners or wok at a store that sold potatoes and ate potatoes as their primary food group.
The Poorrelying mainly on potatoes as food ad if they had a job it was probably at a potato farm, were dependent on potatoes.
The Richowned stores that sold potatoes or owned multiple farms. Eating potatoes still.
On these FarmTheir would be millions of potatoes of all the same type, which made it easier for the disease to spread and kill hundreds of potatoes. So now the poor and middle class and the whole economy fell.
About 100 would go on a ship for 20 with not enough food or clean water and had to cross the ocean. It was so bad these ships are called Coffin Ships. Plus their was no techniques like social distancing that could be used when someone got a disease, there wasn't enough room.
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Then the survivors arrive to their destination North America and got jobs and built families. This event is what made high Irish Americans: 9.7% in the U.S and 13.43% in Canada
From Stompin' Tom Connors to Barack Obama (And other presidents including: Nixon, Kennedy, Bush, Biden, Reagan, Roosevelt) Irish Americans have made a huge impact. In science, the first man to step foot on the moon Neil Armstrong and famous scientist like the inventor of the submarine (John Philip Holland). In Entertainment, Stompin' Tom Connors a talented country musician from Canada. In leadership, great president Obama had Irish ties. And trucks, Mr. Ford has Irish notes
This was made by History_Nerd82, My goal is to make easy to understand comics showing historical events. This comic is about The Irish Famine. And remember keep learning. The next edition will be about Pompeii.