Which Statement Is True About Irish Immigrants to the United

question 37

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true about Irish immigrants to the United States between 1840 and 1860?

• A) They worked exclusively as railroad builders.
• B) Most competed with native-born white Americans for low-wage unskilled jobs.
• C) About half of them lived in the Northeast.
• D) Many lived in urban ghetto neighborhoods where crime and disease rates were high.
• E) Native-born farm daughters replaced Irish immigrants as the main labor force at the Lowell textile mills by the late 1850s.