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When did two million people

leave ireland?

During the Great Famine of 1845-1852, when morę than one million people in Ireland died from starvation and disease another two million were forced to migrate (rmove permanently to another country). The famine was caused by a disease that destroyed lreland’s entire potato crop.

Tell me morę: arriving in America

-aa. From colonial times, America łlff attracted large numbers of European immigrants.

.aa. Before 1850, most flff immigrants were from the U.K., Ireland, or Germany.

-aa. Numbers increased after f|ff the 1880s, when cheap steamship travel became available.

-aa. Most immigrants now flff came from Southern or eastern Europę. Many were Jewish refugees, fleeing pogroms (organized massacres) in Russia.

-ła. Their first sight of America flff was the Statuę of Liberty in New York Harbor.

Five reasons why people migrate

An emigrant is someone who moves from one country to settle in another. An immigrant is someone who has moved into a new country.

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To start a new life with their families.

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To escape famine or natural disasters.

To escape religious or political persecution.

fl|) In 1947, two independent 0 States—India and Pakistan—

To escape war or w w ethnic cleansing (the forcible removal of a people from their homeland).

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f Pakistan, in the northwest of the Indian Subcontinent, was created as a homeland for Muslims.

f* This meant that Muslims whose families had lived for generations in India found themselves on the wrong side of the border, as did Hindus and Sikhs now living in Pakistan.

t* Amid mounting violence, 14.5 million people left their homes to flee to the other side of the border.

Refugees fleeing civil war, Rwanda

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