[DOC] [TLE] The History Place - Irish Potato Famine: Gone to America [PAR] Throughout the Famine years, nearly a million Irish arrived in the United States. ... 
In 1847, the first big year of Famine emigration, the city was swamped with 
37,000 Irish ... In Boston, as well as other American cities in the mid-1800s, there 
was no enforcement of .... New York now had more Irish-born citizens than Dublin
. [DOC] [TLE] BRIA 26 2 The Potato Famine and Irish Immigration to America ... [PAR] The Potato Famine killed more than 1 million people in five years and generated 
... But most managed to survive, and their descendants have become a vibrant 
part of American culture. Even before the famine, Ireland was a country of 
extreme poverty. ... A major cause of Irish poverty was that more and more people 
were... [DOC] [TLE] Great Famine (Ireland) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, 
and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. It is sometimes referred to, 
mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine, because about two-fifths of the 
population was ... During the famine, approximately one million people died and 
a million more... [DOC] [TLE] Irish Potato Famine - American University [PAR] The Issue Throughout the Potato Famine, from 1845 to 1947, more than one 
million people died of starvation or emigrated. ... starvation, and disease that 
gripped Ireland, the Irish people became the country's greatest export. ... (13) To 
fulfill the daily nutritive requirement in the mid-1800s, each person had to eat 3 
kilograms... [DOC] [TLE] Journey Over the Ocean; [PAR] Irish Emigration to ... During this time period more than a million Irish died of 
starvation. When the potato crops first began to fail, it was because of frost, dry rot
, and curl. In 1845, the potato famine ruined about three-quarters of the country's 
crop. .... The United States was truly the land of opportunity during the mid-1800s. [DOC] [TLE] Destination America . When did they come? | PBS [PAR] Although the Irish potato blight receded in 1850, the effects of the famine ... many 
as a million lives, while perhaps twice that number of Irish immigrated ... to the 
United States, where they accounted for more than half of all immigrants in the 
1840s. ... ancestry, making Irish Americans the country's second-largest ethnic 
group. [DOC] [TLE] Irish and German Immigration [ushistory.org] [PAR] I would advise all my friends to quit Ireland  the country most dear to me; as 
long ... Because of their poverty, most Irish people depended on potatoes for food
. When this crop failed three years in succession, it led to a great famine with ... 
more than a million Germans fled to the United States to escape economic 
hardship. [DOC] [TLE] Emigration to and Within the United States in the 1800s  Ancestry ... [PAR] Oct 22, 2014 ... Emigration to and Within the United States in the 1800s ... 1846-47  Irish of all 
classes immigrated to the United States as a result of the potato famine. ... More 
than 5.2 million immigrants entered the country between 1880... [DOC] [TLE] Great Famine | Irish history | Britannica.com [PAR] Jan 28, 2016 ... Famine that occurred in Ireland in 184549 when the potato crop ... Great Famine
, also called Irish Potato Famine, Great Irish Famine, .... Thereafter, more land 
than before was used for grazing sheep and ... USA Facts ... The number of Irish 
who emigrated during the famine may have reached two million. [DOC] [TLE] Irish Potato Famine (18451849) - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] In the colonial context of Ireland's domination by Britain, the root cause of the .... 
In addition, in excess of 1 million Irish emigrated to the United States, Great ... 
and elsewhere, while more than 1 million emigrated over following decades; ... 
As a result of the famine, many Irish families were forced to emigrate from their 
country. [DOC] [TLE] Ireland's population in the mid 1800's - Maps and Pictures

Question: Because of the potato famine, more than a million emigrated from this country to the U.S. in the mid-1800s
Answer: Ireland