However. it was not enough to stop the hunger and loss of farming wages. By the end of the epidemic in 1850. more than 1 million Irish had perished from the hunger. cold. and disease brought about by the potato blight. It seemed the only way to elude the horrors of the famine was to leave Irelandand so many did just that: Although the voyage was treacherous and relatively expensive. more than 1 million Irish emigrated to the United States during the famine. Initially. they settled in the cities of the northeastern seaboard such as Boston and New York. Later they pushed westward to Chicago. the Great Plains. and the uncharted Western territories.
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