during this abstract time period. Immigrants were new to our elaborate and tangled web of politics. In fact many nativast Americans didn’t understand our political system all to well. Many people had the conception that immigrants were too half-witted to follow American politics. After all they were not even born here. Immigrants tended to vote in blocks together. In document 7, according to magazine writer, E.A. Ross thought that foreigners were underhanded and corrupt. They polluted everything “good” about our “pure and honest” political system. Ross gives a clear exaggeration on how the foreigners managed to change the outcome of an election. From intimidation at the polls, ballot frauds, vote purchases, and saloon influence. Also the support of the vicious and criminal. This is clearly a stretch on the reality of the situation. He contradicts himself at the end by saying its root is the “simple minded foreigner”. With all this criminal masterminding to change an election outcome, its foundation are immigrants who do not completely understand our political system. Thats fails to make any sense to me whatsoever. Most immigrants wanted a better future for their families and that was all. Social changes played a huge role in the nativast campaign against immigrants. Many changes were occurring in our social atmosphere. The immigrants were the easiest victim to chose. They were part of a significant transformation of our country. We thought that our entire civilization was at stake. Nativast’s public standard of living would deteriorate by allowing these people to continue to enter and run the country. This can be seen in document 1. The American Federation of Labor wrote to congress, that it was no longer a racial, labor, or political standpoint. It was the basic establishment of the country. Our civilization was at stake. However, it was not falling apart, it was just metamorphosing in...
