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			1834 Burning of Ursuline convent in Charlestown

1845 Beginning of Irish famine

			1870 French-Canadian workers fill Northern N.E. mill towns
1870 Most female wage workers are employed in factories or as household servants.
			1870 The whaling industry attracts thousands of immigrants from the Azores

1894 Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard

			1908 House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded

1912 Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities

			1924 Congress passes restrictive immigration laws

1925 Vermont launches a Eugenics Survey

			1940 Civil leaders of Portuguese descent gather before a mural of the Pilgrim fathers.

1997 Irish Hunger Monument erected in Cambridge

			2001 Boston Massacre Memorial included on a new Irish Heritage Trail.

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