WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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creation of settlement houses to aid new immigrants
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passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act
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continuation of the contract labor system
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assimilation of Native American Indians to mainstream culture
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nativists in California in the 1880s would most likely have supported the. assimilation of Native Americans into mainstream culture.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many Americans on the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic ills to Chinese workers. Although the Chinese composed only 0.002 percent of the nation’s population, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to placate worker demands and assuage concerns about maintaining white “racial purity."
Detailed explanation-4: -Nativists thought Chinatowns were useful because they separated immigrants from other residents.
Detailed explanation-5: -A “nativist” of the late-1800s would have been MOST likely to support a ban on immigration to the United States.