NATIVISM

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NATIVISM

• Belief that native-born Americans are better
  than immigrants

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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