1. Problems that the New Immigrants faced
Labor competition
Language barriers/illiterate
Poverty
Overcrowded ghettos
Religious differences- Catholic/Jewish
“American” Resistance
Aim: How did the nativist movement try to limit immigration to the US?

2. Aim: How did the nativist movement try to limit immigration to the US?
Who were they?
Some wealthy elite
Mainly the working class already here… why this group?
Reasons they hated immigrants
Immigrants took their jobs
Immigrants lowered the pay scale
“new” immigrants (SE Europe) were poor “stock”
Different culture, language, religion
Urban blight
They were poor
Urban ghettos/overpopulating the country
Influence of alcohol
Pollution
crime
High birthrate among immigrants
More future voting power, more Catholics in power
Led to corruption in government
Brought anarchism, socialism, communism to US
Aim: How did the nativist movement try to limit immigration to the US?

3. Aim: How did the nativist movement try to limit immigration to the US?
Organizations
Know-Nothing Party (American Party) 1850s
American Protective Association (APA)
Claimed 3.5 million members
Mainly anti-Catholic- initiation was swearing to not hire Catholics, not vote for Catholics, etc.
Promoted literature about sexy nuns and priests who abused children
Orange Order- British and Protestant Irish against Irish and Italian Catholics
2nd wave of KKK in 1920s
They now hate everyone that’s not a WASP!!
Immigration Restriction League- Henry Cabot Lodge (US Senator)
Aim: How did the nativist movement try to limit immigration to the US?

4. Aim: How did the nativist movement try to limit immigration to the US?
Nativist Laws
Literacy tests for immigrants- IRL sponsored
1st passed by Congress in 1896, but multiple Presidents vetoed it
1917-Congress overrode Wilson’s veto and literacy test of 30 words in any language to become US citizen
1882- banned pauper immigrants
1885- banned contract labor importers
many after WWI- we will do them later……
Aim: How did the nativist movement try to limit immigration to the US?

5. Ethnic Specific Nativism
Aim: How did the nativist movement try to limit immigration to the US?
1882- Chinese Exclusion Act
Banned basically all Chinese immigrants
Every 10 years must be re-issued
If any Chinese in US leave, they cannot return
Chinese couldn’t marry whites (1948 overturn)
Repealed by 1943 Magnuson Act
Side effect!!! – Japanese immigration increased
Gentlemen’s Agreement 1907
Informal (never passed by Congress) arrangement between US and Japan
US would be nice to Japanese students already here, allow them integration in the public schools
BUT Japan would not allow their citizens to come to USA
Immigration Act banned all Asian immigration

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