Immigration & Nativism

1. What is nativism?
-Nativism, in general, refers to a policy or belief that protects or favors the interest of the native population of a country over the interests of immigrants

2. What were the two main sources of nativism in the early 19th century?
-Nineteenth-century nativism in the United States contained a strong anti-Catholic strain, since many of the newly arrived immigrants hailed from predominantly Roman Catholic countries

3. What were the two main groups that resulted from nativism?
-the kkk and the no nothing party

4. What has been the result of 20th century nativism?
-worker from those countries imergated the the west


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migrate,
-to pass periodically from one region or climate to another, as certain birds, fishes, and animals

 migration

- The moving from place to place, as of disease symptoms

, immigration
-the movement of non-native people into a country in order to settle there