This is false. Workers in American mines, mills and factories were poorly paid, and their jobs were extremely unsafe. These horrible conditions (among other things) eventually led to the formation of unions.
Answer: Germans: More than 1.5 million between 1820 and 1860. The 1850s was the single biggest decade for German immigration, with some 951,000 reaching the United States. Why They Came Irish: Most emigrated to escape grinding poverty in Ireland—or to avoid outright starvation in the years of the potato famine.
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The British attacked Washington DC for all of the following reasons, except "<span>a. to get revenge on the US for attacking the British at Waterloo," since this was a completely different war. </span><span />
The only two true statements about the Democratic Party would be that "The Democrats won the Presidency in the 90's but lost control of the Congress" and "<span>In the 1850's Democrats fought over the slavery issue in California," since during this time the Democrats were mostly pro-slavery. </span>
