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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.
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New York and Massachusetts had the largest number of Irish born immigrants. Between 1830-1860 there were about 2 million Irish immigrants in America.
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New York and Massachusetts had the largest number of Irish born immigrants. Between 1830-1860 there were about 2 million Irish immigrants in America.
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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. {Ellis01.jpg} Many Irish immigrants came to America on overly crowded ships.
New York and Massachusetts had the largest number of Irish born immigrants. Between 1830-1860 there were about 2 million Irish immigrants in America.
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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.
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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.
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People moved from Bohemia because they wanted freedom and better living conditions. Bohemia was very strict and was under communist control for a long time so many people moved because they wanted freedom. They also moved because they didn't have the best living conditions, so they decided to come to America to get a fresh start with the conditions they wanted.
2.)The Silesians of the Czech Republic tend to maintain their ethnic character, but many agree that they constitute a subculture within the Czech culture. The term "Czech" refers to the cultural characteristics of the Czech-speaking inhabitants of the Czech Republic, which includes Bohemia, the larger western part, and Moravia, the eastern part.
Bohemians got to America by ship. Many people would leave Bohemia and Austria illegaly because the process to get a passport took too long and it was too hard to get. People would leave through the main port and sail to America. Many Bohemian police did not care if people left illegaly because it required more work to put them into prison then it was to just let them leave.
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The Czechs and Bohemians came to settle in Chicago. By 1850 there were about 10,000 Bohemians in America. The city with most Bohemians was Chicago, because it was accessible from almost everywhere in America and because it was populous with other immigrants. Other cities that had a lot of Bohemians were New York, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Milwaukee.
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6.)Some of the first Czechs that came to America brought with them the love for liberty and social equality.

Most of the Germans that moved here were poor.
Usually the father of the house made enough money for either the family to go or the father to go and get enough money for him to go and went to America and made more money for the rest of the family to come over.
German hardships in the U.S.
Germans had many hardships in once they got to the United States
Germans were usually Roman Catholic and a lot of the people disagreed with that
Germans also had a different political view that most of the people already here
Lastly people did not like Germans because they were taking a lot of the jobs
Although Germans were taking the jobs these jobs were not very good jobs
Germans life was not easy once they got to the United States

The first world war forced some people to leave Germany
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In 1870 the German born farmers made up one-third of the agricultural industry in this region.
The German religion was the Christian religion.
Most of the Germans that moved here were poor.
Usually the father of the house made enough money for either the family to go or the father to go and get enough money for him to go and went to America and made more money for the rest of the family to come over.