Anti-immigrant nativism of the 1840s and 1850s had the most in common with which of the following earlier developments?
a) the passage of the alien and sedition acts (1798), which limited rights for foreign-born residents b) the conflict between patriots and loyalists during the American revolution c) the persecution of religious dissenters in the Massachusetts bay colony d) the signing of the treaty of Greenville (1794) that ended the wars between the united states and native American in the northwest territory