Read the excerpt below:
"The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... Here is the typical immigrant, and here is to be found the immigrant in largest numbers. ... The city is the nerve center of our civilization, in which is concentrated its strength and its weakness. ... The social, political, and moral dangers which threaten our future are concentrated in the city, and are there most rapidly developing."
— Josiah Strong, *Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis*, 1885
Based on the excerpt, which of the following Gilded Age developments was most directly fueled by the sentiments Strong describes?
- The formation of nativist advocacy groups, such as the American Protective Association, seeking to limit the political influence of new immigrantsCevap
- BThe passage of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 to preserve Native American cultural sovereignty in the West
- CThe adoption of strict federal laissez-faire policies that prevented any government intervention in municipal public works
- DThe immediate mobilization of the Populist Party to establish settlement houses in major Midwestern urban centers
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The formation of nativist advocacy groups, such as the American Protective Association, seeking to limit the political influence of new immigrants
The correct answer is correct because the source directly conveys nativist sentiments about the influx of immigrants and their concentration in urban areas. During the Gilded Age, these anxieties led to the rise of nativist organizations like the American Protective Association, which lobbied for immigration restrictions and fought the political influence of non-native populations.
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Immigration, Urbanization, and Social Culture
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