Exercise
Nativism and Anti-Immigration Sentiment
Examine the growth of nativism and anti-immigration sentiment. Learn how these hostile attitudes and beliefs impacted immigrant communities.
Questions
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What is 'nativism'?
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What was a main economic argument used by nativists against new immigrants?
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Which 19th-century political party formed primarily around anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic sentiment?
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Nativists in the late 1800s were frequently suspicious of immigrants practicing which religions?
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What requirement did organizations like the Immigration Restriction League push to limit immigration?
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Which act introduced numerical quotas limiting immigrants based on national origin in the 1920s?
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How did nativists distinguish between 'Old Immigrants' and 'New Immigrants'?
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Which labor movement figure led violent anti-Chinese agitation in San Francisco in the 1870s?
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Why did political leaders worry about European immigrants during times of labor unrest?
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What term describes fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners?
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What period of anti-communist hysteria following World War I intensified nativism?
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Which two Italian anarchist immigrants were famously convicted in a biased 1920 trial influenced by nativism?