Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Famine Relief Efforts, BRITISH, INTERNATIONAL, R. McKinney - Coggle Diagram
Famine Relief Efforts
Public Work Schemes
Building roads, canals etc. for a small wage
Very difficult labour and people were extremely weak
Robert Peel
PM 1846
Sent Indian cornmeal - Irish people could not digest it
People couldn't afford ut
Only sent one months worth for one million people
John Russell and 'laissez faire'
PM late 1846
laissez faire - let it be
Lack of action worsened conditions
Slow to react - believed it would only affect one year of crops
Soup Kitchens
1847 set up
Fed up to 3 million people a day
British closed them in autumn 1847 as they believed blight was over
Workhouses
Food and shelter provided in return for work
Overcrowding and disease
Families split up
Purpose: to clear their land of tenants who could not pay rent
Choctaw Native Indians
Raised funds
Quakers
Opened soup kitchens
Donated clothes
Distributed vegetable seeds
Worked in the worst affected areas (mainly the West)
BRITISH
INTERNATIONAL
R. McKinney