This was intended to promote assimilation, but as few people were willing to abandon their religious values, it had the opposite effect. By 1870, fewer than 200 requests had been registered by Muslims, and 152 by Jewish Algerians. The 1865 decree was then modified by the 1870 Crémieux decrees, which granted full French nationality to the Jews of Algeria, followed in 1889 by "étrangers" ("foreigners"). The opposition was keen to give the same right to Muslims, but the French settlers did not want to equip the natives with rights equal to their own, primarily for demographic reasons. Moreover, it was at Algeria's request that an 1889 Act restoring the "droit du sol" (French citizenship being awarded to anyone born in France) was not applied to Muslims.