nativists

Examples of nativists in the following topics:

• Nativism

  • Nativist outbursts occurred in the Northeast from the 1830s to the 1850s, primarily in response to a surge of Irish Catholic immigration.
  • Morse ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City on a Nativist ticket, receiving only 1,496 votes.
  • 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.
  • Allen had founded a Nativist society called the "Order of the Star Spangled Banner" in New York City.
  • It was at this time that the term "nativist" first appeared; opponents denounced them as "bigoted nativists."

• Nativism

  • Nativist movements were formed to combat what was perceived as a threat to existing American culture posed by immigrants.
  • In 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.
  • Led by Madison Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race, nativists grew more concerned with the racial purity of the United States.
  • After intense lobbying from the nativist movement, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921.

• Toward Immigration Restriction

  • 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.
  • Following World War I, nativists in the 1920s focused their attention on Catholics, Jews, and southeastern Europeans, realigning their beliefs using racial and religious criteria.
  • The second Ku Klux Klan flourished in the U.S. by using strong nativist rhetoric filled with this racial bias.

• The Nativist Response to Immigration

  • It was at this time that the term "nativist" first appeared, in the sense that opponents denounced them as "bigoted nativists. " Former President Millard Fillmore ran on the American Party ticket for the Presidency in 1856.
  • 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.
  • Nativist sentiments experienced a revival in the 1890s, led by Protestant Irish immigrants hostile to Catholic immigration.
  • Hoard , the leader of the nativists.

• Racial Friction

  • In 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.
  • Led by Madison Grant's book, The Passing of the Great Race, nativists grew more concerned with the racial purity of the United States.
  • The second Ku Klux Klan, which flourished in the U.S. in the 1920s, used strong nativist rhetoric, but the Catholics led a counterattack.
  • After intense lobbying from the nativist movement, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921.

• The Know-Nothings and Democrats

  • 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.
  • A bust portrait of a young man representing the nativist ideal of the Know-Nothing party.

• The Great Steel Strike

  • Samuel Gompers and other AFL leaders held a nativist view of the unskilled immigrants working in steel plants.
  • The steel companies played on nativist fears by noting that a large number of steelworkers were immigrants.

• The Retreat from Progressivism

  • 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).

• The American Rally

  • However, opposition came from Nativists, opponents of President Woodrow Wilson, and those who questioned the women's strength and the effect on their health.

• City Government and the "Bosses"

  • At the same time, most political machines' staunchest opponents were members of the established class (nativist Protestants).