Presbyterians are people of Scottish and Irish descent who become the most famous migration group. Presbyterians also called the Irish diaspora, who migrated to America, one of their destinations is Philadelphia, between 250,000 and 500,000 people around 1700-1820.
EXPLANATION
As nomads, the Irish Scots first migrated from the Scottish Lowlands to Ulster in the seventeenth century based on English orders. The British government wanted them to act as Protestant colonizers among native Catholics of Ireland. After 1700, they were faced with difficult economic conditions and increased religious and political persecution.
In 1798 there was an uprising led by Irish Protestants and Catholics who wanted to overthrow the British government and establish a new republic. Yet the revolt failed, which later caused the British acted hard against this resistance. This finally forced them to migrate.
After the incident, Scottish-Irish migrated to America. Most of them migrated and worked as servants. They came in two big waves at the harbor of New Castle, Delaware, and Philadelphia. The first wave came between 1710 and 1776. The second wave arrived between 1780 and 1820.
After nearly a century of migration, these Irish Scots became one of the largest non-British ethnic groups in Pennsylvania. They occupied about 25 percent of Philadelphia's population and 15 percent of the state's population in 1790. Their voices were quite influential.
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KEYWORD: Scots-Irlandian, Philadelphia, Immigrant, Presbyterians
Subject: History
Class: 10-12
Subchapter: Presbyterian
