It was estimated that in the year 1820 about 20.000 persons came to these shores. Then came the Irish famine. with its hunger and misery. and it was thought that perhaps more relief could be obtained by coming to this land of freedom. Largely as a result of that famineand that was in 1855400.000 came to this country. We were not particularly immigration conscious at that time. Beginning in 1871. there was a need for railroad workers. because America was in an expansionary mood. Labor was needed to work on the railroads that went to the Pacific and finally closed the frontier.
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