RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The New immigrants were not excited to be forced into America, while Nativists welcomed them into the United States of America.
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Nativists were unlikely to accept the new languages and customs of new immigrants, but new immigrants were excited to be in the land of opportunity.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Viewing society as a hierarchy of races, nativists relied on flawed scientific ideas that saw new immigrants as inferior and unassimilable. Organizations like the Immigration Restriction League, founded in Boston by three prominent Harvard alumni in 1894, used such ideas to promote restrictive legislation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nativism is the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of these statements best describes nativism? Nativists saw immigrants as a cultural threat.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Old” immigrants came for economic reasons, while “new” immigrants came looking for religious freedom. “Old” immigrants were primarily Catholic, while many “new” immigrants were Jewish or Protestant. “Old” immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe, while “new“ immigrants came from Southern and Eastern Europe.