US History 10 Immigration Storyboard
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- My name is Michael Forde. I am 26 Years old and live in New Ross, Ireland.
- New Ross
- I speak Irish and a little bit of broken English. I attend a Roman Catholic church in my town.
- I come from a farming family, but when I am not helping with the farm for our landlord,I take on jobs as a laborer.
- As farmers, we grow mostly potatoes but also grow "money crops" such as barley,wheat and sometimes oats.
- Barley
- Potatoes
- Wheat
- In the year of 1845, the Irish Potato Famine destroyed half of Ireland's potato crop. The "money crops" were exported out of the country rather than keeping them to feed the Irish people.
- Potatoes
- Millions of Irish died of starvation because of lack of food due to the famine. The free trade government did not help, because it believed in "survival of the fittest."
- Many Irish families were also evicted when landlords were faced with larger bills to cover their tennants difference in payments. Homes were flattened to make room for more farmland, leaving Irish homeless.
- It is in March of 1849, I decide to leave to make a better life, and send for my family at a later time.
- To America
- On March 31, 1849 I boarded the John Bell to begin my journey to the Americas. I was headed, along with other immigrants, to a port in Boston, Massachusetts.
- It was a horrible trip on the ship nicknamed "coffin ship" for the many deaths that occured. There was little food, water, and cramped conditions along with disease and sea sickness.
- On May 14, 1849 the John Bell and its remaining passengers arrived at the port in Boston, Massachusetts. Many of my friends from Ireland had already arrived in places like New York, Canada, Scotland and Australia.
- Many Irish couldn't afford to move inland so they, like myself, settled on the waterfronts of Boston, living in small slums or rooming houses with no sanitation or clean water.
- Illness and disease spread including Cholera. Infant mortality rate was at an all time high and many immigrants were said to have died within 6 years of getting off the boat.
- Conflicts arose between the working class Bostonians and the immigrants looking for jobs. "No Irish Need Apply" signs hung in many windows throughout town.
- Many Irish came over unskilled and took jobs working railroads, construction, cleaning stables and yards and other labor jobs for a mere $1 per day. They vowed to send money home to enable family members to eventually join them in America.
- Fighting in the streets and children begging was beginning to become a normal result of 37,000 immigrants arriving and taking control of the Boston population. Catholic religion was also a cause for unrest in the predominately English Puritan society.
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