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Q: What feelings did some Americans have toward immigrants?
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Why did some Americans in the southwest call for repatriation of Mexican immigrants?

white americans wanted access to jobs that immigrants held.


What was one reason that native born Americans felt more threatened by the new immigrants than they had with the old immigrants?

The ''new'' immigrants brought different cultures and languages. (*NoVaNeT*)


Many Americans resented immigrants on the grounds that they?

Many Americans have resented immigrants throughout American history because they believed that immigrants were taking jobs by offering to work for less money. The irony of the situation is that many of those people were immigrants or their parents were immigrants at some point.


Do African Americans qualify as immigrants?

The great majority of African-Americans were born in America and therefore are not immigrants. There ancestors were immigrants at some point, however, that is also true of everyone else in the western hemisphere. The human race originated in Africa.


How did the rise of American Industry act as a pull factor for immigrants?

For immigrants some factors pushed them from their country while other factors pulled them toward America.


How did some abolitionists differ in their views toward African-Americans?

because there like that


Why were the 1890's a problem for some Americans?

Immigrants streamed into the halls island in the shadow of the statue of liberty


How did prejudice create problems for some immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

More than half of the people in most big Americans cities were immigrants or children of immigrants.


What were some of the grievances of native Americans toward English colonist?

-colonists encroached on their land -caused some massacres -sought to convert the Native Americans to their own religion


Why did immigrants face prejudice in America?

People thought immigrants were taking jobs away from citizens. Americans also did not understand the new religious customs immigrants brought with them.


In 1916 what did some Americans see as a major step toward involvement in the war?

Economic problems


How did Penn's actions toward the native Americans differ from those of the puritans in Massachusetts?

William Penn was more respectful of the Native Americans in some ways.