All the following contributed to hostilities toward Irish Immigrants during the nineteenth-century, EXCEPT:
a. Irish participation in Political Machines
b. Most Irish were Catholic in a nation that remained largely Protestant
c. Ireland’s traditional love for, and allegiance to, Britain, both politically and culturally
d. Rising job competition and wage reductions brought on by Irish immigration
e. Social ills related to the dire poverty of the Irish immigrants

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