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What caused the Irish to immigrate to the United States in the mid-1840s?

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They had to fight religious persecution and attempted to protect Irish land.There was also the Irish slave trade .they also wanted to excape politics in Irish
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to escape political and religious persecution. poverty caused by natural disaster of the Irish Potato Famine forced people to imigrate from Ireland for a new life in the United States
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