Abstract

Five Myths About Immigration
Cole, David | October 17, 1994 issue

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For a brief period in the mid-nineteenth century, a new political movement captured the passions of U.S. public. Fittingly labeled the "Know-Nothings," their unifying theme was nativism. They pinned every problem in American society on immigrants. At the time, the greatest influx of immigrants was from Ireland, where the potato famine had struck, and Germany, which was in political and economic turmoil. Anti-alien and anti-Catholic sentiments were the order of the day, especially in New York and Massachusetts, which received the brunt of the wave of immigrants, many of whom were dirt-poor and uneducated.

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EMIGRATION & immigration; IMMIGRATION opponents; IMMIGRANTS; POLITICAL movements; NATIVISM; UNITED States
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