If you don't know about the Potato Famine and the Irish emigrating to Boston you probably want to know what was the cause of the Irish fleeing Ireland? It all started in Ireland when almost 1 million Irish left Ireland and many others died. In the1800's they came to America because there was better opportunities in the United States (especially Boston) and also because there main food source was inedible because the potatoes caught a disease, which lead to Famine(1845 to 1849) which spread so they weren't able to eat the potatoes so people were skinny, desperate and died from starvation. Many Irish were poor or homeless like rural families living in single-windowless, mud cabins.They lived like that because in Ireland if they had no potatoes it meant no money for them to pay the rent and not only that they were forced to leave their own country because of the British. These reasons lead the population to decrease by 20-25%. The Irish probably thought it would be a great new start leaving Ireland but they faced many harsh things like anti-Catholic discrimination, they were considered subhuman, excluded from many jobs and if they did get jobs like working in factories and on railroads but still they were low paying jobs that wasn't enough to support their families.
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