Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish immigrants for all of the following reasons except
A) the Irish immigrants were financially poor and initially struggled to make economic gains in American society.
B) the Irish immigrants were thought to love alcohol to excess.
C) the Irish immigrants were proudly and openly Roman Catholic.
D) the Irish immigrants constructed a network of parish schools that promoted and advanced Roman Catholicism in America.
E) the Irish immigrants were very slow to learn American English and mostly spoke Gaelic in their urban neighborhoods.
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