Title: American nativism, 1830-1860
Authors: Leonard, Ira M., 1937-; Parmet, Robert D., 1938-; Chandler, Alfred D. 1918-2007,; Parmet, Robert D., 1938-
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Year: 1971
Subjects: Nativism.; Immigrants United States; United States Politics and government
Contents: pt. 1. American nativism. Introduction -- A tradition of division -- Change, the defining characteristic -- The response to social change -- The foreigners: a challenge to unity -- Nativism becomes a movement -- The era of the Know-nothings -- 1856: the turning point -- Conclusion -- pt. 2. Documents. Puritan and Catholic: John Winthrop regards New England as the apogee of the Reformation -- Benjamin Franklin and the Pennsylvania Germans -- The Sedition Act -- The Hartford Convention on naturalization and civil office-holding -- Samuel F.B. Morse formulates the conspiracy theory -- Lyman Beecher extends the "conspiracy" to the West -- Maria Monk's Awful disclosures -- Orestes A. Brownson explains why nativists oppose foreigners -- Congress debates Native Americanism -- A principle that can never die / Lewis C. Levin -- Millions of our best citizens are foreigners? Lucien B. Chase -- Throw open the doors to immigration / J.B. Bowlin -- Native Americanism is not the true remedy / Washington Hunt -- A Congressman discusses foreign economic competition -- A Know-nothing manifesto -- A mock expose of the Know-nothings -- Millard Fillmore, Know-nothing presidential candidate -- A Catholic response to the Know-nothings -- Richard Hildreth examines the motives and composition of the American Republican party -- J.B. McMaster on political nativism -- The real grievance against the Catholic church / Louis Dow Scisco -- The anti-Catholic tradition / Ray A. Billington -- The Know-nothing as reformer / Oscar Handlin -- An appreciation of Know-nothingism / W. Darrell Overdyke -- The social realities of immigrant status / John Higham -- Nativism reflects fundamental tensions within American culture / David Brion Davis.