The risks and uncertainties of free labor didn't deter millions of immigrants from entering the US during the 1840s and 1850s. Almost 4.5 million immigrants arrived between 1840 and 1860, 6 times more than had come during the previous 2 decades. By 1860, foreign born residents made up about 1/8 of the US population, a fraction that held steady well into the 20th century. Nearly ¾ of the immigrants who arrived in the US during this time came from Germany or Ireland.
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B) A 29 year old businessman who was born in Georgia and has served four years as a Georgia senator
Explanation:
The above person meets the important criteria.
Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin is a magnetic specter in the drama that is Russian history, for the peasant mystic from Pokrovskoe played a defining role in the last days of the Romanov Dynasty. In 1905, the fateful meeting took place. Rasputin requested—and was granted— an audience with the Romanov family at Peterhof, where he presented them with a hand-painted wooden icon of Saint Simeon, a venerated Siberian saint dear to Rasputin’s own heart. He soon became a trusted advisor and confidante to Emperor Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna; Alexandra in particular was convinced that the “staretz” was a gift to her from God Almighty, sent to ease her passage through life as the “Little Mother of Russia,” and especially to preserve the precious life of her only son, the Heir, Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich.
El motín indio / rebelión, 1857-58 La mayor rebelión contra el dominio británico tuvo lugar en 1857-58. Fue conocido en Gran Bretaña como el motín indio. Esto se debió a que comenzó con una rebelión de las tropas indias (cipayos) que servían en el ejército de la Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales.
