Both the nativists of the early 1900s and the "know-nothings" of the 1840s and 1850s

The correct answer is Believed immigrants from certain places of origin could not absorb American values

The Know-Nothings movement was a Native American political movement of the 1850s. It began as a popular reaction to the fear that large cities were being flooded by Irish Catholic immigrants whom they considered hostile to American values and controlled by the Pope in Rome.

well it definitly does because if you are seen as weak you will be seen as unimportant and they will walk all over you and the us is the most powerful military and the largest in the world

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the anwser is missions