Nativism_In_The_US

Nativism In The US All so called “Native Americans,” were once immigrants. There were two waves of immigration between the early 1800’s through the early 1900’s. The first wave of immigrants called the “old immigrants” came to America between 1890-1897. They were primarily from Northern Europe: Great Britain, Germany, and Scandinavia. The second wave of immigrants called the “new immigrants” came to America from 1897-1924. The “new immigrants” primarily came from Southern and Eastern Europe countries such as Poland, Russia, and Italy. Nativist parties, like the Know-Nothings and the Order of the Star Spangled Banner verbalized their distaste and disapproval of immigrants. Actions and regulations against immigration did not begin until near the end of the “old immigration” and the beginning of the “new immigration.” Nativists had many fears and concerns regarding immigrants. These concerns included being socially ill-suited to live with the older stock Americans, stealing jobs from the native wor! k force, and bringing new, radical ideas to the country. These fears and concerns caused nativists to come up with schemes to keep immigrants out of the country. These strategies had a great impact on immigration in our country. Nativists had many concerns regarding immigrants. They feared that immigrants would take the jobs of immigrants, country, immigration, act, nativists, came, new, made, people, number, literacy, entering, american, test, native, japanese, great, feared, created, concerns, because, americans, work, time, stock, persons, period, passed, old, majority, government, eugenics, enter, congress, coming, between