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In the middle of the 19th centry, the large number of immigrants came into America and it occured the anti-immigration movements. Those movements were called nativism which took its name from the "Native American" parties. In this time, it is thought that native in America is not American Indian but the inhabitants of the original Thirteen Colonies.
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In 1850, Charles B. Allen founded a nativist society called Order of the Star Spangled Banner in New York City. It was a secrer society.
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The Nativists prejudiced not only Irish immigrants but also German and Chinese imigrants. They were attacked during the second half of the nineteenth centry.
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The Nativist went public when the American Party which was especially hostile to the immigration of Irish Catholics.