WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Discrimination
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Favoritism
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Nativism
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Urbanism
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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: -Nativism – a preference for protecting the interests of the native born against those of immigrants – was behind the Immigration Act of 1924, which effectively prohibited immigrant admissions from Asia and Africa and severely limited those from Southern and Eastern Europe (Zolberg 2006).
Detailed explanation-3: -Nativism is the practice of favoring native-born people, initiatives, ideas, etc. over more recent settlers.
Detailed explanation-4: -: 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-5: -Summary. Nativism describes an ideology that favors the rights and privileges of the “native born” population over and against those of “foreign” status, however these categories might be defined and ascribed.