USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -: a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. : the revival or perpetuation of an indigenous culture especially in opposition to acculturation. nativist.

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nativism describes an ideology that favors the rights and privileges of the “native born” population over and against those of “foreign” status, however these categories might be defined and ascribed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nativism was a political factor in the United States in the 1790s as well as in the 1830s–1850s. There was little nativism in the colonial era, but for a while, Benjamin Franklin was hostile to German Americans in colonial Pennsylvania; he called them “Palatine Boors".