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Title: NATIVISM


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NATIVISM
  • Belief that native-born Americans are better
    than immigrants

2
Examples of Nativism
  • 1840s 1850s Anti-Irish
  • Formation of the American Know Nothing party
  • Anti-Immigrant platform
  • Supported immigration restrictions
  • Supported increase in time to become a citizen
    from 5 to 14 years
  • Vowed never to vote for an immigrant candidate

3
Anti-Asian Immigrants
  • 1880s Anti Chinese
  • Yellow Peril swept California
  • State laws prohibit Chinese from owning or
    leasing land
  • Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882
  • No Chinese laborers to be admitted for 10 years
  • Anti Japanese
  • Problems in San Francisco schools led to The
    Gentlemens Agreement
  • US would educate Japanese within the US Japan
    promised to send no more immigrants to US

4
Anti-German Sentiments during World War I
  • Test loyalty of German-Americans
  • Would they be more loyal to America or Germany?
  • Changed names of German-sounding items
  • Sauerkraut Liberty Cabbage
  • Hamburg Salisbury Steak

5
Quota System based on National Origin Limited
Numbers of Immigrants
  • Formula used to restrict the immigrants
    considered to be unmeltable in the great
    Melting Pot
  • 1921 3 of that nationality reported in the
    1910 census
  • 1924 2 of that nationality reported in the
    1890 census
  • (75 of all quotas were allotted to England,
    Ireland, Germany)

6
Anti-Japanese Sentiment during World War II
  • Following attack at Pearl Harbor, President
    Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066
  • Japanese-Americans were relocated to internment
    camps for the duration of World War II

7
Immigration Act of 1965
  • Major revision of immigration policy ended
    national origins quotas
  • In the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Established a priority based system for admitting
    immigrants
  • Family
  • Skills
  • Refugees
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