In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The distinguished historian of Irish America Timothy Meagher has produced the first ethnic volume in the Columbia guides to American history. This volume is divided into five parts. The first examines the history of Irish America...
Throughout the Famine years, nearly a million Irish arrived in the United States. Famine immigrants were the first big wave of poor refugees ever to arrive in the U.S. and Americans were simply overwhelmed. Upon arrival in America, the Irish found the going to be quite tough. With no one...
After World War I Irish immigration to the United States was high. After Congress passed legislation limiting immigration during the 1920s, however, the numbers declined. Numbers for the 1930s were particularly low. After World War II numbers again increased; but the 1960s saw emigration from ...
A wave of immigration from southern Europe swept across postwar Canada to fill the need for manual labour. The immigration of a highly skilled worked force was also encouraged in the areas of health, education and technology, mostly from Europe.The United States of America America was built by...
6. During the 1830s and 1840s, many northern Europeans and Irish immigrants came to America. 7. Almost half of the immigrants coming to the United States in the 1980s were Asians. 8. Basic American cultural values are freedom, equality and 9、 desire to work hard for a higher standard ...
Similar to many modern immigrants, faith was a crucial dimension of life for those coming to the New World from their native land. Much of the Irish milieu existed within a culture of Catholicism. The biases of anti-Catholicism and anti-immigration made for rough times for the Irish,especially...
History of Immigration to AustraliaAustralia is a country of immigrants. Except for the Aboriginals who have been here for over fifty thousand years ago, all other Australians came here within the last 225 years. Since the arrival of the first European migrates on the First Fleet in 1788, ...
Although most certainly tired and poor, the Irish did not arrive in America yearning to breathe free; they merely hungered to eat. Largely destitute, many exiles could progress no farther than within walking distance of the city docks where they disembarked. While some had spent all of their ...
It was not until mass Irish and Scottish immigration in the 19th century that Halloween became a major holiday in North America, confined to the immigrant communities during the mid-19th century.直到19世纪爱尔兰和苏格兰的大规模移民，万圣节才成为北美的主要节日，仅限于19世纪中叶的移民社区。It was ...
As Peter Kvidera has pointed out Chinese immigrants were “more directly affected by legal restrictions than any other in the history of U.S. immigration.” Collectively, the laws aimed to make life in America so restrictive, so expensive, as to drive the Chinese population in America out of...