History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1834 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Irish and the Germans
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The idea
One witness records two hundred fifty thousand Irish arriving between eighteen twenty and eighteen forty, and one point seven million between eighteen forty and eighteen sixty.
In practice
The famine of eighteen forty-five to fifty-five, in which two million people left Ireland.
Where people slip
Over one point five million Germans arrived in the antebellum era, a figure resting on a single witness and marked as such.
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