Intro
- Nativism gained its name from the "Native American" parties. In this context, "Native" does not mean indigenous or American Indian but rather, those descended from the inhabitants of the original Thirteen Colonies.
In the 1890-1920 era, nativists campaigned for immigration restriction. Immigration
- - A plan was the literacy test to exclude workers who could not read or write English. Congress passed literacy tests, but presidents vetoed them.
- Following World War I, nativists in the 1920s focused their attention on Catholics, Jews, and south-eastern Europeans, and realigned their beliefs behind racial and religious nativism.
- The second Ku Klux Klan, which flourished in the U.S. in the 1920s, used strong nativist rhetoric, but the Catholics led a counterattack. Proposition 187 California
The support among California voters for Proposition 187 in 1994 was an example
of cyclical nativism. This nativism was provoked primarily by California's economic downturn
during the early 1990s. Which was blamed on the immigrants that had previously moved to California.
'Minutemen'
- The relentless demonization of immigrants by hard-line nativist groups was punctuated by murder 2009, when the leader of Minuteman American Defense (MAD) and two followers were accused of shooting a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter to death in Arizona, in May 2009. The crime set off a firestorm of mutual recriminations among nativist leaders — but it did nothing to slow the movement’s growth.
Tancredo
- Thomas Tancredo, was a former Republican Congressman and a nativist.
Emergency Quota Act
- After intense lobbying from the nativist movement, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921.
- It capped the inflow of immigrations to 357,803 for those arriving outside of the western hemisphere. However, this bill was only temporary, as Congress began debating a more permanent bill.- The Emergency Quota Act was followed with the Immigration Act of 1924, a more permanent resolution. This law reduced the number of immigrants able to arrive from 357,803, the number established in the Emergency Quota Act, to 164,687. Though this bill did not fully restrict immigration, it considerably curbed the flow of immigration into the United States.
Nativists
Who are the Nativists? What do they want? How have they tried to get what they want?
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