How Did The Scots Irish Influence

The Scots-Irish: An American Influence In the early 17th century (between 1717 and 1770), a group of settlers known as the Scots Irish came over to what would later become the United States. This group of settlers had a long history with relocation and prejudice, and came to the colonies in seek of refuge from the British government. In the mid-1600s, this same group of settlers had lived in Scotland. This was their first home -- before they were relocated by the British government during the plantation era. The British took this group of presbyterian Scotsmen and relocated them to Ireland to start plantations and farms across areas of Ireland. The Scotsmen relocated to Ireland only stayed there for a generation before they moved to the colonies in North America, taking their culture, art, and music along with them. They were a melting pot of culture and art form, and, with the music they carried with them, they would eventually inspire some of the greatest genres of music we have today. When the Scots-Irish first settled in the colonies, they were met with hostility from the English colonists who considered themselves better

Their fierceness and tenacity created a push for the Declaration of Independence, playing a not so small hand in the beginning of the Revolution that established America. Although despite this, America’s history books remember the Scots-Irish as torrid supporters of the English -- or leaving them out of the history books altogether. In fact, the Scots-Irish settlers made superb frontiersmen in early Colonial America -- their long history of religious discrimination in Ulster Scotland by their tyrannic English landlords meant the Scots-Irish had no hesitation in taking the side of the rebels in the War of