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Trade with Scotland continued to flourish after independence.

The tobacco trade was overtaken in the nineteenth century by the cotton trade, with Glasgow factories exporting the finished textiles back to the United States on an industrial scale.

Immigration from Scotland peaked in the nineteenth century, when more than a million Scots left for the United States, taking advantage of the regular Atlantic steam-age shipping industry which was itself largely a Scottish creation, contributing to a revolution in transatlantic communication.

Scottish Emigration in the United States followed, to a lesser extent, during the twentieth century, when the Scottish economy declined.

This peaked in the first decade of the twentieth century, causing a hard life for the country's population.

So many qualified workers Irish-Scots emigrated overseas, a part of which, established in Canada, would go the United States.