Ulster Scots and Maine Phrases:
My Aunt Fanny - Nonsense
Eejit - Idiot
Finagle - Achieve by cunning and dubious means
Get Away With You - Don't be stupid
I'm Your Man - I agree to and will follow your plan
Knickers In A Twist - Anxiously upset
Rug Rats - Children
Whaling Away At - Beating

An estimated 22 million Americans can claim Ulster-Scots ancestry.

During the American Revolution, Ulstermen protected George Washington's flank from Indian attack while he engaged British troops.

The first published book studying the lifestyle and culture of Native Americans was written by an Ulster-Scot named James Adair.

William Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, was from an Ulster-Scot family.

Ulster-Scots brought the Fiddle with them from Scotland to Ireland and then to America and Canada.

Pennsylvania Ulstermen rebelled against the Whisky Tax in 1794.  They said that "it was a man's right to either eat or drink his corn".

The first Great Seal of America was designed by Charles Thomson, born in County Londonderry.  He was Secretary of the American Continental Congress during the American Revolution.