Irish peasant immigrants and Civil War



Irish peasant immigrants and Civil War

Looking at new Irish peasant immigrants and at free blacks in large cities in the North in the last decades before the Civil War, compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages each group had trying to lead successful lives.

Inferior than the political structure was the land system, in which most of the property-owners were Anglo-Irish Protestants or Englishmen, while most of the peasants were Catholics. Peasants often had to pay burdensome leases and reside in squalid conditions. By the 1830s situation had worsened as marvellous community development in preceding decades ...