WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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limiting federal military power through the organization of local militias
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conserving natural resources through the creation of national parks
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globalizing the economy through participation in free-trade agreements
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promoting an ethnically homogeneous society through restrictions on immigration
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thus, nativists organizations of the nineteenth century promoted an ethnically homogenous society that consisted in Native People only. For this reason, they mainly opposed immigration, due to several concerns: from labor market, to social and cultural concerns, to even racism.
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: -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-4: -In northern cities, which had the largest immigrant populations, nativism-a set of beliefs favoring the interests of established inhabitants against those of immigrants-emerged in the 1830s but grew to a fever pitch by the late 1840s. White, native-born Americans felt threatened by immigrants on nearly every front.
Detailed explanation-5: -Nativists promoted the traditions and Protestant religious beliefs of native-born Americans over the alien customs, languages, and faiths of newcomers and saw immigrants and their cultures as a threat to the American way of life.