AMERICANS TREATMEANT OF IMMIGRANTS
AMERICANS TREATMEANT OF IMMIGRANTS
AMERICAN NATIVISM:
many native born americans and assimilated immigrants viewed the new immigrants with a combination of fear, hostility, and suspicion. american nativism was based on the belief that immigrants posed a threat to nativeborn americans and their way of life. nativists oftern held deepseated prejudices about immigrants based on their ethnicity, race(which at the time peropl considered interchangable with ethnicity), religious background, and [olitical and social beliefs. many americans of northern and wewstern europea stock considered the southern and eastern europeans a different and inferior race. a greek immigrant recalled, "if you were greek or italian you were considered lo class, very low class." a newspaper editorial declared, "the immigrants are an invasionof venorous reptiles...longhaired, wildeyed, badsmelling, atheistic, reckless foreign wretches, who never did a days work in their lives." a founder of the immigration restriction league referred to americans with "british, german, and scandinavian stock" as " free, energetic, jewish europeans as "historically down trodden, atavistic, and stagnant." in additon, many american workers accused immigrants of taking jobs away from "real" americans. a labor union president declared, " are invading the land of amerifans, and whether know it or not, are helping to take the bread out of their mouths.
nativists worked to restrict the number of immigrants entering the united statesin several ays. first, they pushed for ellis island inspectors to reject any immigrant who could not pass a literacy test, thereby preventing " inferior races" from entering the united states. most significantly , nativist called for lawas restricting the number of immigrants that could entere the country. in 1921 congress passed the dillingham bill, which established quotas for the number of immigrants the united states would accept form each nation. the bill marked the end of america's opendoor policy toward immigration and. consequently, the end of the greatest influx of immigrants in u.s. history
AMERICAN NATIVISM:
many native born americans and assimilated immigrants viewed the new immigrants with a combination of fear, hostility, and suspicion. american nativism was based on the belief that immigrants posed a threat to nativeborn americans and their way of life. nativists oftern held deepseated prejudices about immigrants based on their ethnicity, race(which at the time peropl considered interchangable with ethnicity), religious background, and [olitical and social beliefs. many americans of northern and wewstern europea stock considered the southern and eastern europeans a different and inferior race. a greek immigrant recalled, "if you were greek or italian you were considered lo class, very low class." a newspaper editorial declared, "the immigrants are an invasionof venorous reptiles...longhaired, wildeyed, badsmelling, atheistic, reckless foreign wretches, who never did a days work in their lives." a founder of the immigration restriction league referred to americans with "british, german, and scandinavian stock" as " free, energetic, jewish europeans as "historically down trodden, atavistic, and stagnant." in additon, many american workers accused immigrants of taking jobs away from "real" americans. a labor union president declared, " are invading the land of amerifans, and whether know it or not, are helping to take the bread out of their mouths.
nativists worked to restrict the number of immigrants entering the united statesin several ays. first, they pushed for ellis island inspectors to reject any immigrant who could not pass a literacy test, thereby preventing " inferior races" from entering the united states. most significantly , nativist called for lawas restricting the number of immigrants that could entere the country. in 1921 congress passed the dillingham bill, which established quotas for the number of immigrants the united states would accept form each nation. the bill marked the end of america's opendoor policy toward immigration and. consequently, the end of the greatest influx of immigrants in u.s. history