were they protestant?
2006-07-02 01:47:44 · 8 answers · asked by Airon P 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
No, majority were Catholics
2006-07-02 01:50:13 · answer #1 · answered by DollyLama 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mostly poor, mostly Catholic, mostly underpaid. they were like the Mexicans are today but might have had it a bit worse. History records signs that advertised jobs with the caption Irish need not apply. They were treated in New York like, I was going to say Negroes in the south, but I am afraid somebody might think I am prejudiced against the ***** people, that is how bad the Irish had it.Even the freed slaves of the south looked down on them, they were regarded as equal to the imported Chinese railway labourers in a bigoted and racist world
2006-07-02 12:51:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The majority of Irish immigrants were Roman Catholic. Do a search on Irish immigration and maybe Boston to get an idea of how they made out when they came to the USA
2006-07-02 08:52:02 · answer #3 · answered by tony pepperoni 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The illegals of today are treated like the Irish immigrants of 19th c.
But back then getting citizenship was no problem -you just come and US gives a passport! Now it's impossible unless you marry for PAPERS.
2006-07-02 12:44:57 · answer #4 · answered by bunt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At first, they were considered trash, and treated as such. But eventually they assimilated into the population. By the way, most of them came here legally. And they were mostly catholic.
2006-07-02 09:22:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No very few of them were. At that time a majority of them were Catholic.
2006-07-02 11:02:21 · answer #6 · answered by Julie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know but it brought them to the US
but I think the potato famine did that
2006-07-02 08:51:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were Catholics.
2006-07-02 13:04:07 · answer #8 · answered by PuttPutt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋