Title: 
Headings:  Immigration from Europe: The Irish and Germans
Immigration
 
from
 
Europe:
 
The
 
Irish
 
and
 
Germans

Timeline

Facts
 
and
 
Figures

The
 
Potato
 
Famine


Content: Industrialization,
 
overpopulation,
 
and
 
loss
 
of
 
farmland
 
led
 
many
people
 
away
 
from
 
German-speaking
 
Europe
 
(which
 
then
 
included
 
not
just
the
 
states
 
of
 
Germany
 
but
 
Austria
 
and
 
parts
 
of
 
Switzerland
 
and
 
other
nations). Others
 
were
 
political
 
liberals
 
discouraged
 
by
 
the
 
failure
 
of
 
revolu-
tions
 
and
 
reform
 
movements. Where
 
They
 
Settled
Irish: Mostly
 
East
 
Coast
 
cities: New
 
York,
 
Boston,
 
Philadelphia,
 
and
Baltimore. Some
 
settled
 
inland
 
after
 
working
 
on
 
canals
 
and
 
railroads. Germans: Also
 
East
 
Coast
 
cities,
 
but
 
many
 
went
 
west: by
 
the
 
Civil
 
War,
Chicago,
 
Milwaukee,
 
St.
 
Louis,
 
and
 
Cincinnati
 
all
 
had
 
large
 
German-
American
 
communities,
 
complete
 
with
 
German-language
 
newspapers
 
and
community
 
associations
 
(vereins). Culture
 
and
 
Customs
Irish: