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What was the largest group of white non-English immigrants to come to America during the 1700s?
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∙ 13y ago
The Germans and Irish are the two largest non-English immigrant groups to the colonies, respectively. I do not remember the reason for the German Immigration, but a potato famine prompted the Irish immigration. Most Germans settled in Pennsylvania.
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∙ 12y agoThe largest group was the Scotch-Irish with about 150,000 immigrants, the Germans only had about 100,000 (the American Story, Volume 1 to 1877, pg 84-85)
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