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Irish Immigration To The United States
1,349 wordsImmigration into America has shaped and molded us into who we are today. Without groups such as the Scotch-Irish, English, Dutch, etc. America would not be the great melting pot that it has now become. Each of these cultures brought with them a sense of religion, culture and spirit. They took a chance to better themselves, leaving everything that was remotely comfortable in their life behind, bringing with them great hope to the New World. One such group is the Scotch-Irish. The Scotch-Irish his...
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Irish Immigration To The United States
2,218 wordsIrish Immigration to the United States Immigration into America has shaped and molded us into who we are today. Without groups such as the Scotch-Irish, English, Dutch, etc. America would not be the great melting pot that it has now become. Each of these cultures brought with them a sense of religion, culture and spirit. They took a chance to better themselves, leaving everything that was remotely comfortable in their life behind, bringing with them great hope to the New World. One such group is...
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Irish Immigrants Irish Americans
2,162 wordsINTRODUCTION The history of Ireland that most distressful nation is full of drama and tragedy, but one of the most interesting stories is about what happened to the Irish during the mid-nineteenth century and how millions of Irish came to live in America (Purcell 31). Although the high point of the story was the years of the devastating potato famine from 1845 to 1848, historians have pointed out that immigrating from Ireland was becoming more popular before the famine and continued until the tu...
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20 Th Century Irish Immigrants
3,512 wordsINTRODUCTION The history of Ireland that most distressful nation is full of drama and tragedy, but one of the most interesting stories is about what happened to the Irish during the mid-nineteenth century and how millions of Irish came to live in America (Purcell 31). Although the high point of the story was the years of the devastating potato famine from 1845 to 1848, historians have pointed out that immigrating from Ireland was becoming more popular before the famine and continued until the tu...
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Potato Famine Tenant Farmers
613 wordsIn 1845, Ireland suffered through a potato famine that killed over two million Irish. History has taught us to believe that those two million died because of a fungus that caused all the potatoes to be bad. The guilt doesnt rest with the fungus, but with the myriad of problems before it. The potatoes should not be blamed for those many deaths. Several people or organizations could have prevented them. The most prominent government in the whole world, at that period, was the British Government. T...
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