Irish Immigrants In America
Irish immigrants were a really really big part of the culture change. The largest wave of immigrants came from Ireland because of the famine in their land. Everyone ate potatoes over there, so when the crop got a fungus and they died, it was a huge problem for the Irish. A whole lot of people ended up dying from the lack of food.
A lot of the Irish that came to America couldn’t do anything. They weren’t talented and they had no skills and no money. Mostly they lived up north in cities. They faced some hard times when they first started out their lives in this country. People that were native to America thought that the immigrants were taking their jobs and stuff.
Americans during this time were really anti-Catholic. That was kind of a big problem because almost all of the Irish were catholic. The roughest place for the new Americans was Boston, Massachusetts. It was …show more content…
There wasn’t any ventilation, or toilets, or running water, but the landlords still charged a lot, because they were immigrants. There were rats everywhere, and there were about eight or nine people that lived in one tiny little room. The rent was super high, and when the people couldn’t pay it, they were forced to leave their stuff their so that the landlord could have back-rent, until the immigrants could pay it. They were forced to live on the streets without any money or their things.
By 1850 43% of the immigrants that lived in America were Irish. 90% of the Irish living in America still lived in cities, and the other 10 percent lived in the country mostly on farms. The Irish stayed the closest of all the immigrants. One reason was to try to stay close like they were in Ireland, and another was because the Irish were the poorest, and wanted to stay close to help each other out.
Eventually, the Irish were able to become really important in their communities, and Catholicism became one of the biggest Christian groups in
A lot of the Irish that came to America couldn’t do anything. They weren’t talented and they had no skills and no money. Mostly they lived up north in cities. They faced some hard times when they first started out their lives in this country. People that were native to America thought that the immigrants were taking their jobs and stuff.
Americans during this time were really anti-Catholic. That was kind of a big problem because almost all of the Irish were catholic. The roughest place for the new Americans was Boston, Massachusetts. It was …show more content…
There wasn’t any ventilation, or toilets, or running water, but the landlords still charged a lot, because they were immigrants. There were rats everywhere, and there were about eight or nine people that lived in one tiny little room. The rent was super high, and when the people couldn’t pay it, they were forced to leave their stuff their so that the landlord could have back-rent, until the immigrants could pay it. They were forced to live on the streets without any money or their things.
By 1850 43% of the immigrants that lived in America were Irish. 90% of the Irish living in America still lived in cities, and the other 10 percent lived in the country mostly on farms. The Irish stayed the closest of all the immigrants. One reason was to try to stay close like they were in Ireland, and another was because the Irish were the poorest, and wanted to stay close to help each other out.
Eventually, the Irish were able to become really important in their communities, and Catholicism became one of the biggest Christian groups in