Irish immigration (jan 4, 1845 – jan 4, 1855)

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-poor Irish farmers suffered a great famine and millions immigrated to America living in urban areas
-boosted economy with their low-wage labor
-nativism - hostility towards immigrants; anti-catholicism
American Republican Party - temperance, anti-Catholicism, and nativism; cultural and political assault on immigrants; denied voting and office-holding rights to non-citizens
American/Know Nothing Party - native-born Protestants against the Irish and German Catholics to discourage further immigration; antislavery and free soil ideas in the North

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