Title: What did native-born Americans fear about immigration? - eNotes.com
Headings: What did native-born Americans fear about immigration?
Immigration and Nativism in the 1920s
What did native-born Americans fear about immigration?
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Content: The population of the United States had risen dramatically, leading to the growing expansion of cities, in which immigrants tended to congregate. Tensions rose as white, native-born Americans accused immigrants of undercutting their wages and driving them out of a job. The various strands of nativism came together in the rebirth of the racist Ku Klux Klan in 1915, encouraged by the hugely popular movie Birth Of A Nation, a film that essentially rewrote American history and shamelessly glorified the Klan. In due course, nativism, and the pressures it unleashed, gave rise to the Immigration Act of 1924, which severely restricted immigration, especially from those parts of Europe with large Catholic and Jewish populations. It also stopped immigration completely from Asia and Africa. The Act was a blatant attempt to preserve so-called "100% Pure Americanism" and to maintain what the framers of the legislation deemed an appropriate racial and ethnic balance in the United States. Further Reading
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigratio...
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