During the mid 1840's Irish began to immigrate to America because of multiple reasons. One of the main reasons, though, is because of dire poverty caused by natural disaster of the Irish potato famine which forced the people of Ireland to America to seek a new life and new opportunities. Also, another reason why the Irish emigrated to America was to escape political persecution and religious persecution forced upon them by the British. When the Irish got to America it wasn't like how they expected, It was harder to get jobs even though they were determined, they where discriminated. Discrimination against the Irish in Massachusetts looked like a "help wanted" sign, but At the bottom it would say "No Irish Needed." That's just one example, they also faced anti-immigrants and anti-Catholics.
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