0
What caused most Irish Immigrants to move to the US in the 1840s?
Wiki User
∙ 11y ago
There was a potato famine and thousands of people were starving to death
Wiki User
∙ 11y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What religion was practiced by most Irish immigrants in the 1840s?
Catholicism.
Where did most of the Irish immigrants who came to the US following the potato famine of the 1840s?
The Irish immigrated because of the Irish Potato Famine in 1845
What was the most common reason why a large number of Irish immigrants came to the US in the 1840s?
Most of the immigration was caused by the potato famine, but some were caused when their king had switched to a England church because of his marriage. That caused England to be in control of Ireland which left them weak. Another when the black plague had spread to them from England and the Irish were mad at them cause now, England had made most of their troubles.
When did the most Irish immigrants come to Canada?
Well the irish immigration came in three waves. The first and second "wave" came after 1717. Then the last (3rd) wave was in the mid 19th century (1840s). But the majority of the Irish Immigration was during the 1800s. From about 1841-1850 the U.S recorded 780,719 Irish immigrants. The number is a rough calculation but its probably close.
Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the US following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in?
Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States to escape the Potato Famine settled in and around Boston and New York. The main reason was they didn't come to the country with very much money, and lacked the resources to move further inland.
What area of the US was most affected by European immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s?
Northeast
What the Irish had to do with the civil war?
Caused violence in New York, when new Irish immigrants were drafted into the Union army. In the South, one of the most respected Confederate Generals was the Irish-born pharmacist, Pat Cleburne.
In the 1830s and 1840s most of the thousands of poor and wretched immigrants who flooded into America came from?
Ireland
What group of immigrants was most visible in New England textile mills in the 1840s?
women & children
Most Irish immigrants of the 1830s and 1840s initially settled in?
Northern and mid-Atlantic port cities.New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago--but all over the US, actually.
In the 1830s and 1840s most of the thousands of poor and wretched immigrants who flooded into America came from where?
Ireland and Germany
When did most irish immigarte to United States?
The most famous massive Irish immigration to the US was around the 1840s due to the major potato famine in Ireland.
