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Nativism and racism increased in the 1920s and led to changes in Immigration laws.
Nativism and the Red Scare played into Congressional limitations on immigration in the 1920s. This is because people feared that a Bolshevik revolution (which has just happened in Russia) would come to the United States.
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Nativism is defined as being the favoring of indigenous inhabitants over immigrants. Nativism in the United States arouse due to the high levels of immigrants that were coming to the US in the 1920s.
The new nativism of the 1920s led to more restrictive immigration laws like the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924. These laws imposed quotas based on nationality to limit the number of immigrants allowed into the United States, particularly targeting southern and eastern Europeans, as well as Asians. The laws reflected a growing sentiment of xenophobia and nativism among Americans during that time.
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Nativism is the belief that native-born citizens should have more rights and opportunities than immigrants.
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