1. Explain the idea of "Nativism"

it means to protect the interests of native-born people and established inhabitants against immigrants.

sam houston basically made tx he fought for anrew lead troops in the battle of san jacinto and then became president and james polk

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.