Irish

=== The Irish culture has made many impacts on American culture. Today we celebrate Saint Patricks Day and eat potatoes on a regular basis because of the Irish. Over 3,538,444 Americans have Irish ancestory or 1.2% of the US poulation. Some famous Irish-Americans are John F. Kennedy,Eugene O'Neil, and Ed Sullivan. The Irish were forced to immigrate to the United States if they wanted a better life because the Germans treated the Irish like the were jews. Some of the Irish were jews though .=== The Irish were divided by religious groups of Protestant Masters and Catholic Irish. They also were introduced into British policy by the Act of the Unionof 1803 and the Irish already had a hatred for the British this made many citizens want to emigrate. Between 1802 and 1806 one-third of all immigrants were Irish. The British Passenger Act tried to deflect citizens from going to America by making the price for a direct trip four or five pounds but the trip to Canada was 15 Shillings. It cost less to go to Canada and then go to America from there. Most Irish that came to America were peasant farmers who farmed potatoes. They came from a religious battle that has been going on since the early 1800's.

Many of the Irish immigrants were young teens, whose parents sent them to America to survive and have a better life. Most Irish immigrants came on coffin ships that were large and very crowded. The Irish mainly settled in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco. The Irish faced a lot of hardships such as trying to survive with very little food, money, and no resources. The Irish also had lots of discrimination from the American's, they had hard jobs that nobody else wanted. New York and Massachusetts had the largest number of Irish born immigrants. Between 1830-1860 there were about 2 million Irish immigrants in America.