Irish ImmigrantsNick Kelley & Katie Lefebvre

The Boston Atlas Editorial Newspaper

John H. Eastburn

The Boston Post

Taken over by the Boston Traveller

The Burning of a Convent School European Protestants and Irish Catholics

Massachusetts

1830’s-1840’s

Old hostilities

Violence

Immigrant Experience Difficult

Religious Hardships

Poverty

Poor living

Reasons for Immigration Extreme poverty, poor living conditions,

tension from the English

Potato famine

Labor Demand

New York State’s Erie Canal

Demographics Before 1800s, middleclass

Flood of Irish immigrants, 2 million poor

Steerage Act, 43% Irish

Hard Workers, Hard Labor Factories and Railroads

Hardships Burning of the Convent School

Religious tension between Protestants and Catholics

Violence and Aggression

Vandalism, murder, destruction, discrimination

Impact/Significance Workforce

Culture

Society

Irish Immigration Video http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ_uCUcoFwo