When word spread throughout the world funds were raised. including $1 million in America. to help this starving nation. When the ships arrived in Waterford and Cork. thousands of families lined the wharves to beg for a chance to flee the sickly land. Between 1845 and 1850. nearly 800.000 hungry refugees reached our ports and were welcomed. By 1860 more than a million more had arrived. Thus. in a 15year span. the United States had received more immigrants than the world had sent here since we had won independence. The influx could not have come at a better time. Here was a new nation with bold plans. Mills were springing up. railroads were being built. the mighty muscle of the Irish immigrant built the Easts mighty industrial machine. CXV---416--Part 5 Today Irish Americans number more than 30 million. They have an honored place in American life as scholars. statesmen. schoolteachers. scientists. authors. actors. surgeons. and athletes.
Keywords matched
immigrant immigrants refugees