A8+-+Nativism

How did “Americans” treat each wave of immigrants?

 Many Americans saw the immigrants as a threat. The immigrants lived together in poor neighborhoods. Americans blamed crime, poverty and violence on the immigrants. The first wave of immigrants came from Europe and most of them where from Ireland and Germany in the 1860's. Most of the Irish were Roman Catholic which caused corruption between the Americans. The second wave of immigrants came between 1891 and 1910. These immigrants came from Hungry, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Poland, Russia and Slovenia. Native born Americans protested against the new immigrants arrival. Nativism begun with the favoring of the native-born Americans and disapproving of the foreign-born. The Nativists treated the immigrants as though they were being corrupt, mostly the Irish. The Nativists wanted to limit the access of church to the Irish and limit access to political power.