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Which group of immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s came to the United States because of a famine and were distrusted because of their religion and because they were said to take American jobs

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The great potato famine in Ireland (1845–1849) drove the Irish to the United States in large numbers; they emigrated directly from their homeland to escape poverty and death.

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