WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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work for less money and take their jobs.
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eat all their food.
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change the language in America.
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destroy the cities.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nativism is an extreme dislike of immigrants by native-born people.
Detailed explanation-2: -"Old” immigrants came for economic reasons, while “new” immigrants came looking for religious freedom. “Old” immigrants were primarily Catholic, while many “new” immigrants were Jewish or Protestant. “Old” immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe, while “new“ immigrants came from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Detailed explanation-3: -The results indicate that immigrants are in fact more likely to work in risky jobs than U.S.-born workers, partly due to differences in average characteristics, such as immigrants’ lower English-language ability and educational attainment.
Detailed explanation-4: -Contrary to popular belief, we find that immigrants usually work fewer hours than natives in most of the countries studied. In addition, we observe that native workers in Western and Southern Europe have, over time, tended to increase their number of hours worked compared to immigrants.