Identify the author’s topic. Passage B: What had been a tric…
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Identify the аuthоr's tоpic. Pаssаge B: What had been a trickle in the 1820s--sоme 128,502 foreigners came to U.S. shores during that decade-became a torrent in the 1850s, with more than 2.8 million migrants to the United States. Although families and single women emigrated, the majority of the newcomers were young European men of working age. This vast movement of people, which began in the 1840s and continued throughout the nineteenth century, resulted from Europe's population explosion and the new farming and industrial practices that undermined or ended traditional means of livelihood. Poverty and the lack of opportunity heightened the appeal of leaving home. As one Scottish woman wrote to an American friend in 1847, "We cannot make it better here. All that we can do is if you can give us any encouragement is to immigrate to your country." Famine uprooted the largest group of immigrants: the Irish. In 1845, a terrible blight attacked and destroyed the potato crop, the staple of the Irish diet. Years of devastating hunger followed. One million Irish starved to death between 1841 and 1851; another million and a half emigrated. Although not all came to the United States, those who did arrived almost penniless in eastern port cities without the skills needed for good jobs. With only their raw labor to sell, employers, as one observer noted, "will engage Paddy as they would a dray horse." Yet, limited as their opportunities were, immigrants saved money to send home to help their families or to pay for their passage to the United States. German immigrants, the second largest group of newcomers during this period (1,361,506 arrived between 1840 and 1859), were not facing such drastic conditions. But as Henry 8rokmeyer observed, "Hunger brought me ... here, and hunger is the cause of European immigration to this country." --Gary 8. Nash et al., The American People, 6th ed., vol.
Finаl Exаm - Sectiоnаl Figure.pdf Frоm the cоpy of the attached Twin Cities Sectional chart, using only the information from lectures and that available on the chart, what is the approximate distance from Grand Forks airport (GFK, marked with the red “A”), to the US-Canada border (denoted by the break from green background to white background – Note area marked with the red “C” and circle)?