Question

The majority of people who left Ireland after 1850 were the--------.
 A. Urban poor from southern Ireland.
B. Rural is poor from southern Ireland.
C. Rural people are poor from Northern Ireland.
D. Urban poor from Northern Ireland.

Answer 1

Hint:- In the years between 1850 to 1854, approximately 900,000 to one million Irish migrated overseas. An average of 180,000 to 200,000 per year; not until 1855 did overseas migration decline to pre-famine levels. Of these, some 80 percent emigrated to the United States, another 10 to 12 percent to British North America (Canada), and most of the remainder to Australia.

Complete step by step solution:
The majority of people who left Ireland after 1850 were the Rural poor from southern Ireland.
Irish emigration is famous in history as the potato famine took place in Ireland between 1850 and 1960.
This immigration took place into three periods:-
First, between 1850 to 1854, when most migrants still responded to the Great Famine's immediate effects. Second, between 1855 to 1929, when the Irish migrants went to the United States. And the third, in between 1930 to 1960, when they immigrated to Great Britain.

Hence, answer B is the right option.

Note: The immigration which was caused by the Great Famine took place in Ireland.
 Another name of this was the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Famine, or the Irish Potato Famine (mostly outside Ireland). During this period (1845 to 1849), mass starvation and diseases took place within Ireland.