Question

facing resistance and fitting in
nativism: a feeling of
towards immigrants
nativists
immigrants of:

• taking

• driving up

rates.

• bringing poverty and disease.

nativism grew stronger when economic times were

Explanation:

1. Nativism is defined as a hostile, exclusionary sentiment toward immigrants.
2. Nativists held negative stereotypes about immigrants, framing them as a group that harms native-born populations.
3. A common nativist grievance was immigrants taking jobs from native workers.
4. Another complaint was that immigrants drove up unemployment rates for native-born people.
5. Nativist sentiment typically intensified during periods of economic hardship, as people scapegoated immigrants for financial struggles.

Answer:

1. (Top box) hostility
2. (Second box) accused
3. (Third box) jobs
4. (Fourth box) unemployment
5. (Bottom box) hard/difficult