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Why did the Irish immigrants come to the US?

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Irish Immigrants came to the United States in the early part of the 19th century because there was the Potato Famine in Ireland. This caused starvation and forced the Irish to immigrant to another place. This place was the US. Additionally, the Northeastern part of the US including New York City offered employment as dock or factory workers. People from Ireland have made up a substantial part of the US population from European nations.

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they came because poverty and poor crops 75,000 people starved

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