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Notes about this image:Pieter Breughel, "The Triumph of Death," c. 1562, detail. Violence and decay of European life compelled many to leave their countries for America. See also slides IM-A-21, 22.
Citation:Museo del Prado, Paseo del Prado s/n, 28014 Madrid, SPAIN. In Bernard A. Weisberger, The American Heritage History of the American People, New York, 1971, p. 27. 8.6.3
Standard:8.6-3.00 the reasons for the wave of immigration from Northern Europe to the U.S. and growth in the number, size, and spatial arrangements of cities (e.g., Irish immigrants and the Great Irish Famine)

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