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Amain reason most irish immigrants came to the united states in the mid-1800s wasa) to find jobs as skilled workers.b) to escape a potato famine.c) to live in less-crowded conditions.d) to escape religious persecution.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. and i live on, but in grief and self-contempt, left here without the light i loved so much, in a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. no more love songs, then, i have done with such; my old skill now runs thin at each attempt, and tears are heard within the harp i touch. (lines 9-14) which of the lines, taken from the sestet shown above, is the volta?

What was the historic border between the united states and mexico?