I am exceedingly well pleased at coming to this land of plenty. ... I would advise all my friends to quit Ireland--the country most dear to me; as long as
they remain in it they will be in bondage and misery. ... What you labour for
is sweetened by contentment and happiness; there is no failure in the potato
crop, and you can grow Indian corn, and every crop you wish. ... I shudder
when I think that starvation prevails to such an extent in poor Ireland.
--Letter from an Irish immigrant to The Times of London, May 14, 1850
Which quotation from this letter reveals the main reason for the surge in Irish immigration to
the United States in the mid-nineteenth century?
F "I am exceedingly well pleased at coming to this land of plenty."
G "I would advise all my friends to quit Ireland. ..."
H "What you labour for is sweetened by contentment and happiness. ..."
"There is no failure in the potato crop..

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more. until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student in the johnstown academy with a class of boys. though i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages, yet, in our plays, all the girls and boys mingled freely together. in running races, sliding downhill, and snowballing, we made no [division] of gender. true, the boys would carry the school books and pull the sleighs up hill for their favorite girls, but equality was the general basis of our school relations. i dare say the boys did not make their snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash their faces with the same [forcefulness] as they did each other's, but there was no public evidence of [favoritism]. which detail supports the central idea that stanton feels females and males were generally treated equally at johnstown academy? until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student . . i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics . . [t]here was no public evidence of [favoritism]. true, the boys would carry the school books . .