We The People explores the impact that Ulster-Scots emigrants had on different aspects of American culture, life explores the impact that Ulster-Scots emigrants had on different aspects of American culture, life and politics, including their role in the framing of the US Constitution.
This documantary focuses on the experiences of the mainly Presbyterian, Ulster-Scots farming families who began to arrive in Boston from the 1700s onwards. It travels to a whiskey distillers in Virginia, a log cabin building in Rockbridge County, a musical jamboree at Floyd country store and the McGlohon Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina to hear a reading by playwright Robert Inman.
The programme looks at the impact President Andrew Jackson – whose parents were from Carrickfergus. He had a difficult relationship with the Washington establishment and had a populist style of politics – something that may explain part of his appeal to President Donald Trump.