A Social History of the Scotch-Irish

A Social History of the Scotch-Irish
ISBN-10
1461710383
ISBN-13
9781461710387
Category
History
Pages
222
Language
English
Published
1999-08-12
Publisher
Madison Books
Author
Carlton Jackson

Description

Beginning with the origins of their population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author traces the Scotch-Irish development from Lowland Scotland to Northern Ireland to the American colonies. Arriving in the East, the Scotch-Irish were characterized by other colonists as being fiery tempered, stubborn, hard drinking, and very religious, and they quickly made lasting impressions. Though the Scotch-Irish were in the minority, they managed to impact history. Most notably, they introduced the appeals system and the checks and balances system.

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