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Several million irish and germans migrated in the 1840s primarily because

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disastrous economic and political conditions forced them to leave. Germans fled to America in the 1840s to avoid religious and political persecution during the German revolution of 1848. Ireland saw nearly five million people emigrate to America in the 1840s to escape the devastating effects of the Great Famine.
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