Nativism+tfl

=Natvism= Nativism is an extreme dislike of immigrants by native-born people. Nativism started during the heavy wave of Irish immigrants coming to America is the 1840s and 1850s. The wave of immigration led to increased feelings of nativsm in the Americans. In the late 1800s, natvism feelings were focused mainly on Asians, Jews and eastern Europeans. Nativists opposed immigration for many different reasons. Some were afraid that the increase of Catholics from countries such as Ireland, Itlay, and Poland would convert the mostly Protestant United States. Many labor unions also opposed immigration, because they thought that the immigrants would take the jobs of the American workers.