Anti-Irish Riots
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Religion, Ethics, Military History
- Subcategories: Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Immigration, Immigrants
- Curriculum: American History 1816-1855
- Geographical Location: Pennsylvania
- Date: May 6-July 5, 1844
Article abstract: In a period of rising immigration and intercultural friction, nativists riot against Irish-Catholic workers.
Summary of Event
Rapid population growth, industrialization, and cultural conflict characterized urban America in the 1840’s and helped produce bloody anti-Irish riots in Philadelphia’s industrial suburbs of Kensington and Southwark in the summer of 1844. Already the second largest U.S. city in 1840, Philadelphia’s population grew by more than one-third in the 1840’s, from twenty-five thousand people to thirty-six...
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