Which statement is true about Irish immigrants to the United States between 1840 and 1860?
A) They worked exclusively as railroad builders.
B) Most competed with native-born white Americans for low-wage unskilled jobs.
C) About half of them lived in the Northeast.
D) Many lived in urban ghetto neighborhoods where crime and disease rates were high.
E) Native-born farm daughters replaced Irish immigrants as the main labor force at the Lowell textile mills by the late 1850s.
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