Write one simple sentence of a reasoning to the following: Challenges such as nativism is one area that affected immigrants and other Americans in* late 19th and early 20th century. According to Document D: Except from The Chinese Exclusion Conference, San Francisco Building Trades Council, in American Federation of Labor, Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion, 1901. stated that. * We respectfully represent that American labor should not be exposed to the destructive competition of aliens who do not, wil not, and can not take up the burdens of American citizenship, whose presence is an economic blight and a patriotic danger." Also according toDocument F: Excerpt from "/s America Too Hospitable?" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1923 stated that, "The amazing thing is the cheerful willingness with which the American people are giving up their country to other people, so rapidly that they are already reduced to a scant half of the population. No one is to blame but ourselves. The noble spirit of our founders, and their complete ignorance of sociology began the trouble. They honestly imagined that one kind of man was as good as / another if he had the same opportunity-unless his color was different."
The fear of economic competition and concerns about maintaining the American population's majority status were reasons cited in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for challenges such as nativism against immigrants.
