WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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ethnically homogeneous society by restricting immigrants
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to Limit federal military power through local militias
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To globalize the economy through participation in free-trade agreements
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Create national parks
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Detailed explanation-1: -Viewing society as a hierarchy of races, nativists relied on flawed scientific ideas that saw new immigrants as inferior and unassimilable. Organizations like the Immigration Restriction League, founded in Boston by three prominent Harvard alumni in 1894, used such ideas to promote restrictive legislation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nativists actively sought to eliminate the perceived threat of immigrants who they blamed for the social and economic ills of urban areas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Increasing nativist sentiment created political movements to restrict immigration. Nativist organizations like the Immigration Restriction League and the American Protective Association advocated strongly for limiting immigration into the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -In northern cities, which had the largest immigrant populations, nativism-a set of beliefs favoring the interests of established inhabitants against those of immigrants-emerged in the 1830s but grew to a fever pitch by the late 1840s. White, native-born Americans felt threatened by immigrants on nearly every front.