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Oh All right A pushers Next up with a love

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letter Dear John you're ecologist Skim it We have two

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questions on this thing I know Take the opportunity sending

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a feeling you're gonna help bring their family and their

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a good job on my own when nothing here are

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Jim and Crime Ireland's You're on very thin ones are

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in the market and the salad eight or nine shillings

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from very bad every day Wanting the porter bad way

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starving in the west of Ireland and turning And Hannah

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wrote to me pretty regular Everything she hears anything are

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pretty well interferes I hope your father mother it's health

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Well a family Well the question the circumstances described in

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the excerpt are evidence of which of the following developments

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in the United States during the first half of the

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nineteenth century The eighteen thirties and eighteen fifties saw a

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massive wave of immigration from Europe to the United States

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The largest group was the Irish who were escaping oppressive

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English landlords and the great potato famine It was a

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horrible time in Ireland People were dying of hunger and

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disease at alarming rates Approximately one point five million Irish

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died during the Great Famine The center of the letter

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William Dunne makes a reference to the great Fram And

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as well he says about Ireland that well there is

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nothing here about hardship and starvation are potato Crop is

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all over Many Irish families decided to come to America

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for work and a better life In an eighteen fifty

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nine hundred sixty one thousand seven hundred nineteen Irish immigrants

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lived in the U S So the answer is the

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Irish immigrant wave usable here Well there was indeed a

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German immigrant wave in the eighteen thirties and fifties but

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the excerpt is alluding to the Irish immigrants The French

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have immigrated to America but not massively There wasn't a

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French immigrant wave between the thirties and fifties but they

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came in record numbers between eighteen forty nine fifty one

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thanks to the California gold rush Finally there wasn't a

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Mexican immigrant wave between eighteen thirties and eighteen fifties It

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wasn't until the nineteen eighties and well today that Mexican

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immigrants began arriving in waves Mexicans Now are they the

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biggest immigrant group in the country Although immigration from Mexico

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slowed down in two thousand seven due to the recession

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and a whole bunch of other politically things anyway that's

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it The answer here to this question is the Irish 00:02:10.545 --> [endTime] immigrant wave

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