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Immigration and Nativism in the 1920s
What did native-born Americans fear about immigration?
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Nativists, as they were called, were profoundly hostile to immigration. They thought that immigrants constituted a threat to the way of life they valued and cherished. To them, immigrants were strange people speaking strange languages which they could not understand. They came from different cultures with radically different political and legal systems.