WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Judiasm
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Protestants
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Catholics
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Buddhists
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Largely Catholic and Jewish in religion, the new immigrants came from the Balkans, Italy, Poland, and Russia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Many members of other faiths-Jews, Protestants, and even some Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists-arrived in the successive waves of massive immigration to the United States between the 1840s and 1920s. But Catholics from various countries were the most numerous-and the most noticed.