Like most countries, the United States alternated between welcoming newcomers and wishing they would stay away. Some American nativists, especially in the early to mid-1800s, wanted only those who were descendants of the original colonists to live in the US. They questioned whether immigrants with no ties to America would be loyal to this country, and they feared that immigrants would secretly remain loyal to the old country.
Other nativists disliked people from the "wrong" religion-- Catholics and Jews, for example, and later they did not want people from the "wrong" race-- Asians, free blacks from the Caribbean, etc. Thus, the main reasons that nativists opposed Immigration were fear of those who were different, and later, concern that immigrants might take away their jobs.
something about immigrants taking all their jobs and such
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they felt happy
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Take jobs away from Americans
To stop immigration =APEX
Nativists resented immigrants for their willingness to work for lower pay. Nativists also feared they would lose their culture.
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Natives disliked the new immigrants because they (took jobs from white Americans).
The nativists in the late 1800s viewed the new wave of immigrants with a little resentment.
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They were anti-Catholic, and nativists (opposed to Immigration and were suspicious of immigrants).
They said immigrants carried the disease
Nativists belived immigrants threatened American traditions.
all of them
Immigrants worked hard to fit in to society.
they felt happy