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A history of American anti-immigrant bias, starting with Benjamin Franklin’s hatred of the Germans

Merelli, Annalisa
http://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-bias-starting-with-benjamin-franklins-hatred-of-the-germans/

Publisher:  Quartz
Date Written:  12/02/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

In the 1750s, the United States of America was not yet a country, but its trouble with immigrants already had begun. People of non-WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) descent were crossing the ocean to start new lives in the new world, and earlier Colonial settlers were none too happy about it.

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