USA HISTORY

a) Europeans seek industrial jobs in the United States. b) World War I beginsc) Nativism resurges in the United States.What was one way the U.S. government responded to this combination of events?

(A) ** Passed Immigration Restrictions

(B) Made Labor Unions Illegal

(C) Implemented Military Draft

(D) Established a Federal Income Tax

Concept note-1: -As a result, politicians and the press frequently portrayed immigration as a threat to the nation. By the early 1920s, these long-held nativist fears generated new restrictive legislation that would cause the number and percent of foreign-born in the United States to decline sharply for decades afterwards.

Concept note-2: -Nativism in the early twentieth century In reaction, some embraced nativism, prizing white Americans with older family trees over more recent immigrants and rejecting outside influences in favor of their own local customs.

Concept note-3: -Increasing nativist sentiment created political movements to restrict immigration. Nativist organizations like the Immigration Restriction League and the American Protective Association advocated strongly for limiting immigration into the United States.

Concept note-4: -They were fueled by economic competition over jobs, housing, and public services, but also by religious, cultural, and political biases. Those beliefs were often intertwined with racist views of immigrants that saw them as debased, immoral, and criminal.