Author Question: New Immigrant groups were regarded with special hostility by many nativist Americans because a. ... (Read 35 times)

LaDunn · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

New Immigrant groups were regarded with special hostility by many nativist Americans because

a. most Americans considered Italian, Greek, or Jewish culture inferior to their own.
b. many New Immigrants attempted to convert Americans to Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, or Judaism.
c. in many New Immigrant families, women were kept in distinctly subordinate roles.
d. New Immigrants were often more politically loyal to their homelands than to the United States.
e. their religions were distinctly different and some New Immigrants were politically radical.

Question 2

Thomas Jefferson and his political supporters opposed John Adams's last-minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because

a. the judges appointed were viewed by Jefferson and his political supporters as incompetent.
b. they believed that the appointments were unconstitutional.
c. they did not want a showdown with the Supreme Court.
d. it was an attempt by the Federalists, who had been defeated in the congressional and presidential elections of 1800, to maintain political influence in the federal government.
e. these judges were superfluous in a federal judiciary with relatively few civil and criminal cases being filed and tried each year.