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Grace Weaks HIS 200: Applied History Southern New Hampshire University May 29, 2021

Topic and Research Question Topic: For my historical event analysis, I have chosen is The Irish Immigrant Experience, which began after repeated potato crop failure in the 1840’s. This is a significant event in the history of the United States as it highlights the discrimination and bias that was present during the time, first towards African Americans along with the Irish Immigrants. Research Question: Some questions that I have are how were the immigrants able to pay for their passage to America? When they arrived how did they find places to stay and work? Did they regret the decision to leave Ireland? Thesis Statement The Irish Immigrant Experience began after the great potato crop failure in the 1840’s. At the time, poor Irish families used potatoes to buffer their food supply, eating potatoes for every meal in some fashion. Because they were poor farmers, usually tenant farmers, that rented the land from a wealthy, absentee landlords. The farmers would grow crops, which would be forfeited to the landlord as rent and they were allowed to keep the potatoes for themselves. As food supplies dwindled and money became scarce the farmers were forced out of their homes and immigrated to Canada and the United States. How were these families able to survive let alone afford passage to America?

Search Terms and Sources Search terms that I have used in my research so far include Irish Immigration, Potato Famine.

Primary source relevance is how the immigrants were able to afford passage to the United States and how they were able to find housing Anbinder, T. (2002). From Famine to Five Points: Lord Lansdowne's Irish Tenants Encounter North America's Most Notorious Slum. The American Historical Review, 107(2), 351-387. doi:10.1086/532290 Anbinder, T. (2001). Lord Palmerston and the Irish Famine Emigration. The Historical Journal, 44(2), 441-469. Retrieved May 29, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3133615 "Honey Fitz": Three Steps to the White House: The Colorful Life & Times of John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, by John Henry Cutler. Indianapolis, IN: BobbsMerrill, 1962. I found a review of this book in Shapiro Library, and located a copy online at http://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/honey-fitz/used/. The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. This book is in Shapiro Library....