A Social History of the Scotch-Irish

Beginning with the origins of their population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the author traces the Scotch-Irish development from Lowland Scotland to Northern Ireland to the American colonies.. Arriving in the East the Scotch-Irish were characterized by other colonists as being fiery tempered stubborn hard drinking and very religious and they quickly made lasting impressions. Though the Scotch-Irish were in the minority they managed to impact history. Most notably they introduced the appeals system and the checks and balances system.