During the 1800s, nativists promoted the idea that immigrants contributed to unemployment by
a. taking jobs back to their native countries.
b. blocking american workers from applying for jobs.
c. competing for jobs that they believed should go to people born in america.
d. forcing or intimidating employers into hiring them.

The answer is C) Competing for jobs that they believed should go to people born in America.

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the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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