Examples of Nativist Movements in the following topics:
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- Nativist movements were formed to combat what was perceived as a threat to existing American culture posed by immigrants.
- Nativist movements included the Know Nothing or American Party of the 1850s, the Immigration Restriction League of the 1890s, the anti-Asian movements in the West, resulting in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the "Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907," by which Japan's government stopped emigration to the U.S.
- The findings of the commission further influenced immigration policy and upheld the concerns of the nativist movement.
- The racial concern of the anti-immigration movement was linked closely to the eugenics movement that was sweeping the United States.
- After intense lobbying from the nativist movement, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921.
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- Nativists
campaigned for immigration restrictions from 1890-1920, proposing measures such
as literacy tests and quotas.
- The early 20th Century in the United States saw widespread
racism targeting immigrants and the emergence of a “nativist” movement
demanding favored status for established citizens over new immigrants.
- The commission’s final findings in 1911, however, upheld the concerns of the nativist movement.
- The second Ku Klux Klan flourished in the U.S. by
using strong nativist rhetoric filled with this racial bias.
- It contributed to the anti-immigration movement and consequently, immigration quota legislation in the 1920s.
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- Nativist movements included the Know-Nothing or American Party of the 1850s, the Immigration Restriction League of the 1890s, and the anti-Asian movements in the West, the latter of which resulted in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
- It was at this time that the term "nativist" first appeared, in the sense that opponents denounced them as "bigoted nativists."
- In Charlestown, Massachusetts, a nativist mob attacked and burned down a Catholic convent in 1834.
- In the 1840s, small scale riots between Catholics and nativists took place in several American cities.
- Hoard, the leader of the nativists.
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- Nativist movements included the Know Nothing or American Party of the 1850s, the Immigration
Restriction League of the 1890s, the anti-Asian movements in the West,
resulting in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the "Gentlemen's
Agreement of 1907," by which Japan's government stopped emigration to America.
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the 1890-1920 era, nativists and labor unions campaigned for immigration
restriction.
- The findings of the commission
further influenced immigration policy and upheld the concerns of the nativist
movement.
- The racial concern of the anti-immigration movement was
linked closely to the eugenics movement that was sweeping the
United States.
- After
intense lobbying from the nativist movement, the United States Congress passed
the Emergency Quota Act in 1921.
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- These radical nativists believed that Catholic immigrants could not be trusted.
- Most anti-immigrant nativists saw foreign Catholics as the root of the liquor and alcohol problem that the temperance movement targeted.
- Some nativists even believed that there was a Catholic conspiracy by the pope to subjugate the United States through a continuing influx of Catholics.
- For the temperance supporters, the Know-Nothing movement represented a return to Protestant morality and control of the political system to moral, native-born politicians.
- A bust portrait of a young man representing the nativist ideal of the Know-Nothing party.
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- Nativism was an anti-immigration movement that favored those descended from the inhabitants of the original thirteen colonies.
- The large numbers of immigrants that came from dramatically different cultures during the middle of the nineteenth century sparked a number of anti-immigration movements.
- The largest of these movements was nativism, which took its name from the "Native American" parties.
- Following the Philadelphia Nativist riots in the spring and summer of 1844, the Order of United Americans, a Nativist fraternity, was founded in New York City.
- It was at this time that the term "nativist" first appeared; opponents denounced them as "bigoted nativists."
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- Rather than scientific
genetics, however, Eugenics is now generally associated with racist and nativist elements who desired so-called "scientific"
evidence for prejudicial beliefs and government policies.
- The Eugenics movement
in the United States was used to justify laws enabling forced sterilizations of
the mentally ill and prohibiting marriages and child bearing by immigrants,
while Eugenics theories were used by the Nazi regime in Germany to justify
thousands of sterilizations and, later, widespread murder.
- While
these ideas existed for centuries, the modern Eugenics movement can be traced
to the United Kingdom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Leonard Darwin, son of Charles, presided over the
meeting of about 400 delegates from numerous countries – including British luminaries
such as the Chief Justice Lord Balfour, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston
Churchill – and served as an indication of the growing popularity of the
Eugenics movement.
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American Eugenics movement was rooted in the biological determinist ideas of Galton
and included those who believed in genetic superiority of specific Caucasian
groups, supported strict immigration and anti-miscegenation laws, and supported
the forcible sterilization of the poor, disabled and "immoral."
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- The Progressive movement was also an exclusive phenomenon that was restricted to the white, Protestant, educated middle class.
- Racism often pervaded most Progressive reform efforts, as evidenced by the suffrage movement.
- In addition to internal contradictions that limited the scope and success of Progressives, the movement as a whole lost popular support around the time of World World I.
- Urban cosmopolitan scholars recoiled at the moralism of prohibition and the intolerance of the nativists of the KKK, and denounced the era.
- Women consolidated their gains after the success of the suffrage movement, and moved into causes such as world peace, good government, maternal care (the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921), and local support for education and public health.
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- One main goal of the Progressive movement was purification of government.
- The politics of the 1920s were unfriendly toward the labor unions and liberal crusaders against business.The politics were also characterized by the moralism of prohibition and the intolerance of nativists such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
- Others stress the continuing importance of the Progressive movement in the South in the 1920s which involved increased democracy, efficient government, corporate regulation, social justice, and governmental public service.
- Women consolidated their gains after the success of the suffrage movement, and moved into causes such as world peace, good government, maternal care (such as the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921), and local support for public health and education.
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- Eugenics is the social movement claiming to improve the genetic features of human populations through selective breeding and sterilization.
- Most popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and now generally associated with racist and nativist elements rather than scientific genetics, eugenics was considered a method of preserving and improving the dominant groups in the population.
- The American eugenics movement was rooted in the biological determinist ideas of Sir Francis Galton, which originated in the 1880s.
- Discuss the sources and political significance of the eugenics movement in early twentieth-century America