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Years Image Event Description Keywords
1834   Burning of Ursuline convent in Charlestown   immigration, Catholicism
1845   Beginning of Irish famine   immigration
1870   French-Canadian workers fill Northern N.E. mill towns   labor, economy, immigration
1870   Most female wage workers are employed in factories or as household servants. In Boston, 8 of 10 household servants are foreign born. In textile mills, most are immigrants or the children of immigrants. women's work, population, immigration
1870   The whaling industry attracts thousands of immigrants from the Azores   immigration
1894   Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard   labor, population
1908   House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded   witch, Salem, museum, immigration
1912   Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities   immigration, labor
1924   Congress passes restrictive immigration laws   population
1925   Vermont launches a Eugenics Survey   population, immigration
1940   Civil leaders of Portuguese descent gather before a mural of the Pilgrim fathers.   immigration
1997   Irish Hunger Monument erected in Cambridge   immigration
2001   Boston Massacre Memorial included on a new Irish Heritage Trail. What was the justification for doing this?
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