It Could Most Accurately Be Said of Irish Immigration After

question 17

Multiple Choice

It could most accurately be said of Irish immigration after 1840 that

• A) male Irish immigrants were welcomed by Protestant Americans of English, German, and Dutch ethnic backgrounds.
• B) many Americans viewed Irish Catholics with fear and distrust because of their Catholic religion.
• C) Irish fleeing the disaster of famine in their homeland brought with them much needed factory skills.
• D) less than half of the immigrant arrivals after 1840 were Irish fleeing the famine in Ireland.
• E) most Irish immigrants settled in the industrialized cities of the Midwest, where their opportunities for work were greater.

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