All of the following underlay anti-immigrant feelings in the 1800s EXCEPT
a. immigrants would hold back progress
b. immigrants would take jobs away from the native-born
c. immigrants would weaken the nation because they tended to live in their own communities
d. many immigrants were Roman Catholic rather than Protestant
e. immigrants might be revolutionaries fleeing the Europe after the unsuccessful revolutions of 1830 and 1848
Answer: a. immigrants would hold back progress
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