Food Shortage In Ireland During The 19th Century

During the 19th century, hundreds of thousands of people moved to the United States. A large chunk of these people came from Ireland. The biggest motivations for the Irish people to immigrate were a major food shortage in Ireland, railroad advertisements, and urbanization in the U.S. In Ireland, the primary food source was the potato. Conveniently, a disease started to spread around Ireland that killed most of their potatoes. This disease caused a huge famine that killed a large amount of the Irish population. Since most of the Irish people didn’t want to starve to death, they decided to leave Ireland. Now that the people decided to leave Ireland, they needed to figure out where to go. The United States was arguable the most tempting place