WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Feared immigrants gain control of city and state governments
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Believed immigrants receive preferential treatment from federal government and receive land
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Thought country’s ports could not handle increasing numbers of immigrants and exports
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Considered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe a threat to traditional American cultural values
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Detailed explanation-1: -From 1880 to 1921, immigrants experienced an increasing nativism-the desire to protect the interests of native-born or established inhabitants over those of immigrants-from both the native-born Anglo-Saxons and the earlier immigrant populations from Northern and Western Europe.
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: -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. In particular, they resisted what they perceived as an encroachment of Catholicism.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.