USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -: a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. : the revival or perpetuation of an indigenous culture especially in opposition to acculturation.

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: -These anti-immigrant, or nativist, sentiments had many sources. They were fueled by economic competition over jobs, housing, and public services, but also by religious, cultural, and political biases. Those beliefs were often intertwined with racist views of immigrants that saw them as debased, immoral, and criminal.

Detailed explanation-5: -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".