Criticle Thinking 15-4!

What were the effects of the massive influx of immigrants to the US in the late 1800s?

Due to the massive influx of immigrants to the US in the late 1800s many different races and religions and people so different from one another were brought together and coexisted with one another, though this mix of different religions and race led to bad anti-immigration views and feeling.

The united States became known as a "melting pot" of a country(p. 464). This was because the united states was supposed to be a place were all different religions, race and cultures would come together and mix in one place. This was due to the fact that there was so many people of these different backgrounds being pushed out of the there country and feeling the pull to come over to ours. They would all come to live and hopefully find work here and in that way they were bring parts of there culture to come and "mix" with the cultures of others from other places doing the same thing. The mix did not go over well because many immigrates showed reluctance to mix and rid themselves of there culture, they did not want to get rid of that part of themselves.

The fact that so many different cultures were clashing with one another did no turn out entirely well. It lead to the rising of Nativsm(p.464). This was a belief that native born Americans(not to be confused with Native Americans) were superior to the immigrates that were entering the country and that they had rights that were above the ones that should be given to immigrates. This group of people help contribute to many negative anti-immigration feelings. They wanted less immigrates and so they went to the government. Eventually this helped lead to stricter immigration laws and the banning of some races all together. Many immigrates felt the effects of the blatant prejudice that was put upon them.