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date/time period - specifc person/groups - event or situation

1. Starting topic:
  • Irish American immigrants
2. Ways to narrow it down:

  • Colonial America in the 1600s
  • Irish-Catholic immigrants
  • Life in the colonies
3. More focused:
  • Irish-Catholic immigrant experience in 17th century colonial America
4. Keywords found for continued research

Irish-Catholic Colonial America Indentured servitude
Convicts 1600s/17thcentury Irish Papists
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