18 Facts About Scotch-Irish American

Term Scotch-Irish is used primarily in the United States, with people in Great Britain or Ireland who are of a similar ancestry identifying as Ulster Scots people.

The term is somewhat ambiguous because some of the Scotch-Irish American have little or no Scottish ancestry at all: numerous dissenter families had been transplanted to Ulster from northern England, in particular the border counties of Northumberland and Cumberland.

Scotch-Irish American describes them as being quite different from Gaelic-speaking groups such as the Scottish Highlanders or Irish.

The Scotch-Irish American radiated westward across the Alleghenies, as well as into Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Scotch-Irish American moved up the Delaware River to Bucks County, and then up the Susquehanna and Cumberland valleys, finding flat lands along the rivers and creeks to set up their log cabins, their grist mills, and their Presbyterian churches.

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Scotch-Irish American settled the frontier of Pennsylvania and western Virginia, they were in the midst of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion that followed.

The Scotch-Irish were frequently in conflict with the Indian tribes who lived on the other side of the frontier; indeed, they did most of the Indian fighting on the American frontier from New Hampshire to the Carolinas.

Especially in Pennsylvania, whose pacifist Quaker leaders had made no provision for a militia, Scotch-Irish settlements were frequently destroyed and the settlers killed, captured or forced to flee after attacks by Native Americans from tribes of the Delaware, Shawnee, Seneca, and others of western Pennsylvania and the Ohio country.

In contrast to the Scottish Highlanders, the Scotch-Irish were generally ardent supporters of American independence from Britain in the 1770s.

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, with its large Scotch-Irish American population, was to make the first declaration for independence from Britain in the Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775.

Scotch-Irish American concludes that the leadership of the iron and steel industry nationwide was "largely Scotch-Irish".

Ingham finds that the Scotch-Irish American held together cohesively throughout the 19th century and "developed their own sense of uniqueness".

Border origin of the Scotch-Irish American is supported by study of the traditional music and folklore of the Appalachian Mountains, settled primarily by the Scotch-Irish American in the 18th century.

Scotch-Irish American immigrants brought it over in the 18th century and it became a common floor plan in Tennessee, Kentucky, and elsewhere.

Vann shows the Scotch-Irish American played a major role in defining the Bible Belt in the Upper South in the 18th century.

Scotch-Irish American emphasizes the high educational standards they sought, their "geotheological thought worlds" brought from the old country, and their political independence that was transferred to frontier religion.

In 1746, the Scotch-Irish American Presbyterians created the College of New Jersey, later renamed Princeton University.

The Associate Reformed Synod of the West maintained the characteristics of an immigrant church with Scotch-Irish American roots, emphasized the Westminster standards, used only the psalms in public worship, was Sabbatarian, and was strongly abolitionist and anti-Catholic.