In Ireland, they had a potato famine caused by a fungus. Many people died of the hunger, and thousands immigrated to America in hopes of a better life.
1840 also there were many german immigrants that came about that time
European Protestants
Germany, Ireland, China, Mexico, and Britain
Europe More specifically, Ireland. Irish immigrants were fleeing the potato famine and came to the US.
The Catholic religion and St. Patrick's day during immmigration of 1840-1860. During the Irish potato famine.
How many immigrants came to ameracia between 1840 and 1860
why did immigrants boom in the late 1800s
Nicholas Flood Davin was born on 1840-01-13.
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Henry Thomson - Irish politician - was born in 1840.
Germany, England and Ireland
Between 1831 and 1840, approximately 600,000 immigrants entered the USA. The largest group came from Ireland after the British relaxed travel restrictions there.