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18 Cards in this Set
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Scots-Irish immigrated during the ?
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Formative Wave 1700-1775
"4th great migration" (came from N Ireland 'over half', Scottish Lowlands, Borderlands) |
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Poor Scots
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Ate oatmeal for breakfast, lunch & dinner that was made with frog butter & worked in fields... Disease prevalent... Prosecuted due to their different denomination of protestant than the church of england at the time... Presbyterian.
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Scots were...
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Very good sheep farmers & grew wealth...
They also created the textile market. |
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In 1620 & 1720 ?
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1620- Scots poured into Northern Ireland
1720- Scots migrated to the US |
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Constant conflict in Northern Ireland bw ?
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Protestant English, Catholic Irish, Presbyterian Scots
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Woolens Act
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No Irish wool could be sent to English textile markets, Scots farmers were suddenly without and income... destroying the economy of the Scots in Northern Ireland.
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King James II
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Catholic & wants to gain rule over England so invades N Ireland 1691 to gain Irish-Catholic recruits & attempts to prosecute the Protestant Scots living in Ireland.
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1707...
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first land renewals price ^ & the first scots leave for US in a very small group.
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1st big wave of Scots migration...
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(1714-1720) around 10k Scots-Irish migrate to the US.
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2nd wave of Scots migration...
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(1725-1745) famine hits and several thousand more scots leave Ireland... 6k leave in one year alone.
Over half scots came from N Ireland. |
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Pull & Push Factors for the Scots ?
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Pull- own their own land in the US
Push- famine, bad economic conditions, no religious freedom |
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Scots settled where ?
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Frontier bc it was cheap, available & they were indifferent to Indian attacks bc they were used to the harshness of Ireland dealing with wars/famine/etc.
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Squatting ?
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early scots settlers practiced this... having no legal rights to a land & grazing livestock their gaining its usage by being the first (& sometimes only) people in the area.
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Great Wagon Road
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settled from W Pennsylvania all the way to South Carolina and Georgia...
(settled in Shanendoah Valley, N & S Carolina, Appalachian Mountains, etc.) |
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Who were Scots-Irish?
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Daniel Boone & Davy Crockett
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Similar to the Germans bc ?
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Migrated in family units and had enough money to come over all together... settled away from the english... wide range of economic status... settled in back country.
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How do the Scots-Irish become part of the dominant group?
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Originally they are looked at as "barbarians" by the English... become the backbone of the US army & obliterate the british... after the American Revolution they are considered part of the dominant group because of their siding with the colonist.
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Scots Stereotype ?
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Pride & Violent
Can never be wrong -> will argue with one until they are right & if one argues with them there will be blood. |
