Which of the following statements is true about immigration to the united states during the last two decades of the nineteenth century?
(a) united states immigrantion laws sharply reduced the number of eligible immigrants.
(b) irish immigrants came in larger numbers than earlier in the century.
(c) nativist agitation brought about a decline in immigration.
(d) the united states government entered into a "gentleman's agreement" to ban immigration from certain countries
(e) southern and eastern europeans came in larger numbers than earlier in the century.

In a speech before the american society of newspaper editors (april 16, 1953), president eisenhower stated: "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. this world in arms is not spending money alone. it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. this is not a way of life at all in any true sense. under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." do you agree or disagree?