What factors brought the Irish to the Americas?

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∙ 13y ago

Updated: 8/20/2019

There was a burgeoning population and Irish Catholics were discriminated against by Protestants. Then the potato crops began failing, causing a potato famine which was the precipitating factor for a major migration to the U.S.

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They were brought to the Americas for slavery.

What caused African slaves to be brought to the Americas?

What caused African slaves to be brought to the Americas was the demand for cheap labor. They replaced indentured servants.

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The majority of slaves brought to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Brazil

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people who worked on the sugar plantation who were brought to the Americas were brought from the continent of AFRICA. signed : WESLEY ISAACS

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Patrick brought Christianity to the Irish.

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Initially slaves were brought to the Americas to work the sugarcane fields

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