Native-Born Protestant Americans Distrusted and Resented the Irish Immigrants for All

question 70

Multiple Choice

Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish immigrants for all of the following reasons except  

• A) the Irish immigrants werefinancially poor and initially struggled to make economic gains in American society.
• B) the Irish immigrants were thought to love alcohol to excess.
• C) the Irish immmigrants were proudly and openly Roman Catholic.
• D) the Irish immigrants constructed a network of parish schools that promoted and advanced Roman Catholicism in America.
• E) the Irish immigrants were very slow to learn American English and mostly spoke Gaelic in their urban neighborhoods.

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