Question

A man nicknamed “Mallet” owned a location where members of this ethnicity developed a group called the Gophers, whose leaders included “One Lung.” The Roach Guards opposed a group composed of people of this ethnicity who were led by a woman who filed her teeth to points. A group of this ethnicity who were nicknamed the “Mulberry Boys” may have participated in the storming of the (*) Colored Orphan Asylum and were formally called the Dead Rabbits. Two groups of this ethnicity attacked each other during the 1871 Orange Riots. People of this ethnicity, who led the 1863 Draft Riots, settled Hell’s Kitchen (10[1])and Five Points after arriving on “coffin ships.” (10[2])For 10 points, name this ethnicity that took up work as unskilled laborers in New York City after an (10[1])1840s potato famine. ■END■

ANSWER: Irish Americans
<Noah Sheidlower, American History>
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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%0%86.33
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y6100%0%0%80.83
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%77.50
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