many irish immigrants came to the united states in 1845 because they were
Irish Americans From 1820 to 1860, 1,956,557 Irish arrived, 75% of these after the Great Irish Famine (or The Great Hunger, Irish: An Gorta Mór) of 1845–1852, struck.[33]
Paris Peace Accords
Gilded Age In terms of immigration, after 1880 the old immigration of Germans, British, Irish, and Scandinavians slackened off. The United States was producing large numbers of new unskilled jobs every year, and to fill them came number from Italy, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Russia, Greece, and other points in southern and central Europe, as well as French Canada. The older immigrants by the 1870s had formed highly stable communities, especially the German Americans.[102] The British immigrants tended to blend into the general population.[103]
Colonial history of the United States A majority of New England residents were small farmers. A man had complete power over the property within these small farm families.