USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the mid-1800s, the Irish immigrants accepted jobs as ferrymen, boatmen, tailors, construction workers, canal workers, railroad workers and such and worked for as little as 87 cents a day.

Detailed explanation-2: -Coming mainly from impoverished agricultural areas, most Irish immigrants initially worked as unskilled laborers, dockworkers, hod carriers, teamsters, and domestic servants.

Detailed explanation-3: -Between 1845 and 1855 more than 1.5 million adults and children left Ireland to seek refuge in America. Most were desperately poor, and many were suffering from starvation and disease. They left because disease had devastated Ireland’s potato crops, leaving millions without food.

Detailed explanation-4: -Irish immigrants often entered the workforce at the bottom of the occupational ladder and took on the menial and dangerous jobs that were often avoided by other workers. Many Irish American women became servants or domestic workers, while many Irish American men labored in coal mines and built railroads and canals.