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Irish Immigration - 1850s. The potato famine resulted in the immigration of over a million Irish immigrants into the United States in the late 1840s and 1850s. Irish immigration to the US was hardly a new phenomenon, though. It had been increasing since the 1820s right along with dramatic increases in the Irish population itself: Decade. 1820.
The expansionist movement in the United States gained tremendous momentum in the 1840s. The movement, coined “manifest destiny” in the mid-1840s, justified expansion with a sense of mission and purpose, viewing American expansion as inevitable, just, and divinely foreordained. This expansion led to the addition of Texas and Oregon to the ...
4 de ene. de 2021 · Following a pair of excellent posts on Christmas traditions by my colleague Isis Quan, here we look at two early representations of Santa Claus in the United States, both dating from the late 1840s. The first is said to have been the earliest published image of old St. Nick, appearing in an 1847 edition of an 1845 children’s story by Benjamin ...
List of wars: 1800–1899. This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
4 de sept. de 2018 · America, then as in now, was a nation in crises. The people, the voters, were scared. There were more Irish, Germans, and other Europeans coming to America. The revolts in Europe in 1848 added to the influx. The uneducated immigrants added to the population of the emerging cities. Soon, ghettos would appear.
14 de may. de 2024 · There is data on 1840s wages in Ireland in the book Wages in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century published in Cambridge in 1900. This chapter on Ireland discusses not only wages, but discusses the difficulty of finding work, number of hours typically worked, the daily cost of food and ways that the Irish supplemented their income with family "potato patches," etc.
