WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Melting Pot Theory
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Nativism
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Pluralism
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Know Nothing Party
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Detailed explanation-1: -The melting pot theory of multiculturalism assumes that various immigrant groups will tend to “melt together, ” abandoning their individual cultures and eventually becoming fully assimilated into the predominant society.
Detailed explanation-2: -A melting pot is a metaphor for a society where many different types of people blend together as one. America is often called a melting pot. Some countries are made of people who are almost all the same in terms of race, religion, and culture.
Detailed explanation-3: –An example of a melting pot is a place where refugees and people from all over the world come to visit, work, and exchange their thoughts and ideas, resulting in the formation of a single new community. Note:-It was Israel Zangwill who invented the word ‘melting pot’ in 1908.