The Many Faces of Nativism
While many Americans would prefer to think of their homeland as a "nation of immigrants," nativism has been a potent social and political force for most of the nation's history. This exhibit centers on a few of the high-water marks of anti-immigrant sentiment.
The Early Republic
View Connections0319th Century Exclusion
View Connections20Red Scares & the 1917 Immigration Act
View Connections14Quotas, Scientific Racism & the 1920s
View Connections20Refusing Refugees
View Connections20Southern Borders
View Connections12Trumpism
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