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nativist
nativists means U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants.
Someone who favors the original population over immigrants.
they hated them
Take jobs away from Americans
Many "new" immigrants were unskilled and poor and came to the United States alone
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The American Party was a nativist party formed to keep immigrants out of the U.S. that had up to 500,000 members at one point. This group was part of the Know Nothing movement.
A wave of Immigration inspired nativist politicians to pass laws forcing immigrants to pass a literacy test, and to create a QUOTA SYSTEM. In other words they were completely against immigrants.