USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nativism is an extreme dislike of immigrants by native-born people. Immigrant is a person who enters and becomes established in a country other than that of his or her original nationality.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nativism is a reaction against immigrants. Earlier inhabitants of an area or a country sometimes develop a dislike or fear of immigrants. Nativism and racism are similar. In both cases, a strong dislike or hatred arises on the part of one group against another group.

Detailed explanation-3: -: 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-4: -The United States has always been a nation of immigrants-and seemingly also always a nation suffused with xenophobia, a fear or hatred of those same immigrants.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.