WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Governments should implement programs for assisting the unemployed
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Legislation should be passed to protect the rights of minorities in the United State
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America is a haven for the world’s discontented
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America must be preserved for Americans
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Detailed explanation-1: -Arguments presented for immigration restriction Thus nativism has become a general term for opposition to immigration based on fears that immigrants will “distort or spoil” existing cultural values.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which statement would most likely have been said by a nativist? “The nation’s purity is being ruined by Catholics and undesirable foreigners."
Detailed explanation-3: -Anti-Chinese The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first of many nativist acts of Congress which attempted to limit the flow of immigrants into the U.S.. The Chinese responded to it by filing false claims of American birth, enabling thousands of them to immigrate to California.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of these statements best describes nativism? Nativists saw immigrants as a cultural threat.