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would lead to Boston becoming famous for making candies. By the mid-19th century Boston was one of the largest
manufacturing centers in the nation, making textile goods and the machinery that the factories used.
The workforce was mainly migration of Irish, Italians, and others in the mid 19th century, Boston also became a hub of the new railroad system.
The earliest Irish settlers arrived in the early 18th century as indentured servants who came to work in Boston and
New England for five to seven years, before gaining their independence. At this time they could not be seen to be Catholics in public because Catholicism was banned in the Bay Colony. Then in 1718, congregations of Presbyterians from Ulster in the north of Ireland began arriving in Boston Harbor. These groups were sent to the edges of the Bay Colony, where they settled. This is the origin of the placenames such as Belfast, Maine, Londonderry and Derry,
In the 1860s, many Irish immigrants joined the Union ranks to fight in the American Civil War, and they were then looked upon more favorably.
It is this heritage that explains why Boston still has the largest percentage of Irish-descended people of any city in the United States. Gradually the Irish took control of politics, while the Protestants controlled finance.
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