Between the years 1840 and 1860, over 1.7 million Irish immigrants came to the United States. Many immigrants left Ireland because of the Great Irish Famine. A famine is an extreme shortage of food. Below are two sources that describe the Great Irish Famine. The first source is from a song written in the decades after the Great Irish Famine. The second source is adapted from a book written by a historian of Irish immigration. Read the passages. Then answer the question below. A song written in the late 1800s In 1848, I saw fathers, boys, and girls with rosy cheeks and silken curls all a-missing and starving for a mouthful of food to eat. a-missing : dying Poor Pat Must Emigrate, late 1800s. Kerby Miller, historian From the summer of 1845 through the early 1850s, every harvest of potatoes—practically the only food for most of Ireland's inhabitants—failed totally, resulting in perhaps a million deaths. Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles. Copyright 1985 by Oxford University Press. Which of the following conclusions would be supported by both of the passages?

Between the years 1840 and 1860, over 1.7 million Irish immigrants came to the United States. Many immigrants left Ireland because of the Great Irish Famine. A famine is an extreme shortage of food. Below are two sources that describe the Great Irish Famine. The first source is from a song written in the decades after the Great Irish Famine. The second source is adapted from a book written by a historian of Irish immigration. Read the passages. Then answer the question below. A song written in the late 1800s In 1848, I saw fathers, boys, and girls with rosy cheeks and silken curls all a-missing and starving for a mouthful of food to eat. a-missing : dying Poor Pat Must Emigrate, late 1800s. Kerby Miller, historian From the summer of 1845 through the early 1850s, every harvest of potatoes—practically the only food for most of Ireland's inhabitants—failed totally, resulting in perhaps a million deaths. Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles. Copyright 1985 by Oxford University Press. Which of the following conclusions would be supported by both of the passages?