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What groups immigrated in record numbers to the united states between 1820 and 1850?

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Irish--came to escape the potato famine and to find jobs and new life in America.

Germans--came to escape religious persecution and nationalism movement in Germany. Many came with means and resources and became farmers in the Midwest.
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