Irish immigration (4 янв 1845 г. – 4 янв 1855 г.)
Описание:
-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
Добавлено на ленту времени:
Дата:
4 янв 1845 г.
4 янв 1855 г.
~ 10 years