What Are Americans Resented New Immigrants

Many factors influenced why Americans resented “new” immigrants, such as the decrease of jobs and increase of competition, the differences between cultures and how Americans believed that immigrants were harming the country. While how ‘nativist’ groups, along with their allies in government, responded (both politically and socially) was caused by their fear of immigrants, their view of Americans being superior to immigrants and

The main reason why Americans resented “new” immigrants that were arriving in the U.S, was because of the differences between cultures, which made Americans feel threatened. A quote from the document, Immigration and Migration Overview, states, “...the influx of so many millions of foreigners, mostly Catholics and Jews, and most relatively poor and speakers of myriad languages, seemed threatening to the way of life they considered authentically American.” While another example of this would be a quote from, the book The Americans in Chapter 7, Section 1, which states, “Native-born people often disliked the immigrants’ unfamiliar customs and languages, and viewed
An example of this statement would be in Document 6 from The Nativism Response to Immigration, which states, “The qualities of the American people… are moral far more than intellectual… one way in which you can lower those qualities or weaken those characteristics, and that is by breeding them out…” An example would be from Document 2 in The Nativism Response to Immigration, which states, “Immigration not only furnishes the greater portion of our criminals, it is also seriously affecting the morals of the native population.” Each of these examples that I just provided help supports my statement that Americans resented immigrants, because they believed Americans were superior and their view that immigrants were ruining