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Explain the reasons for anti-immigrant (Nativist) feelings in the US during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries

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Nativists wanted to limit immigration so that they could preserve the U.S. for native-born white Protestants. Also, they thought that immigrants were too different and took American factory jobs
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