AS AMERICA BEGAN THINKING ABOUT
GETTING INTO WORLD WAR 1, THERE
WERE ISSUES OF LOYALTY, OR
FEARS THAT MANY AMERICANS, OR
MANY IMMIGRANTS WHO
WERE IN AMERICAN CITIES
WOULD NOT BE LOYAL.
AND MANY OF THEM HAD COME
FROM PARTS OF THE EMPIRES
THAT WE WERE FIGHTING.
THE AUSTRIO-HUNGARIAN
EMPIRE, FOR EXAMPLE.
AND SO AT THAT MOMENT,
EXPECTATIONS OF COMPLETE
LOYALTY AND 100% AMERICANISM
AND AMERICANIZATION ON THE PART
OF THE IMMIGRANTS BECAME, THESE
EXPECTATIONS BECAME HIGHER.
AND WHEN SOME OF THESE
IMMIGRANTS WERE PERCEIVED TO
FALLING SHORT, THEN THE SOME
AMERICANS WHO HAD WELCOMED
OPEN IMMIGRATION BEGIN
TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS.
AND ROOSEVELT HIMSELF
BEGAN TO HAVE DOUBTS.
EVEN ABOUT THE UNRESTRICTED
FLOW OF EUROPEANS INTO
AMERICAN SOCIETY
AT THAT POINT.
