You made a little typo here!
Al Smith died in 1944 so he could not have participated in the election of 1982.
Instead, he was a candidate in 1928.
The other candidate was Herbert Hoover, a Republican, who also won the election.
Answer:
They pushed for laws to discourage immigration or deny political rights to immigrants.
Explanation:
In history, Nativism was a political string that exalted the interests and the rights of the national population over its migrants. It was mainly tied with the embodiment of measures to dominate immigration flows, specially of Chinese immigrants.
The navists employed missions to boycott German and Irish goods, because they did not want to contribute the econimic infrastructure and enlargement of the immigrants.
I am not sure, but I believe it is the Qin Dynasty
As I recall it was rolled-steel girders riveted together, probably from shipbuilding, together with steam-powered winches and an abundance of cheap steel. As opposed to European cathedrals erected with animal-powered winches and with more expensive forged iron bracing (one of the big cathedrals has a kind or iron corset to keep the walls from bursting outwards).
