Many of the people came to escape religious persecution
With the compromise, the Republicans had quietly given up their fight for racial equality and blacks' rights in the south. In 1877, Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed, thereby ending Reconstruction.
The battle in which the Native Americans attempted to resist the armed forces for the last time took place on 29th December 1890 in South Dakota near the Wounded Knee Creed.
It was the Masacre of Wounded Knee, also refered as the Battle of the Wounded Knee.
The answer is Scotch-Irish
