1. Immigrations Role Throughout the Novel My Antonia
America in the late nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented levels of immigration from central Europe, which in turn ignited equally unprecedented social and political tensions in the United States. ... In its most acceptable form, the earliest sign of immigration can be called assimilation. ... The melting pot, as McNall called Nativism, had been present from the beginning of the century of Immigration. ... Not only was nativism "present from the beginning of the century of immigration, but infected all sections of the country and every class"(Wells 6). ... They arrived late on the lar...
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