Question

All the following contributed to hostilities toward Irish Immigrants during the nineteenth-century, EXCEPT:

a. Irish participation in Political Machines
b. Most Irish were Catholic in a nation that remained largely Protestant
c. Ireland’s traditional love for, and allegiance to, Britain, both politically and culturally
d. Rising job competition and wage reductions brought on by Irish immigration
e. Social ills related to the dire poverty of the Irish immigrants

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter E.

Explanation: Most of these immigrants settled in the Northeast of the United States, especially in large urban centers, as they could create their own communities that would support and protect this new environment, and also because they had no capital to move inland. having to settle for settling in near the ports where they landed.