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What did Protestant Americans most fear about the Catholic immigrants?
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∙ 11y ago
That the Catholic Church would take control of the country.
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AnswerPersonally, I was raised in a protestant family, my one grandmother was the child of immigrants from Catholic Ireland. Protestants came to this country to get away from Catholics, or in the case of the English, away from Anglicans; and this country was started with a combination of protestant and Deist principles. Catholics were regarded as "foreigners" who had a strange religion celebrated in a language that no one understood. They tended to congregate in their own neighborhoods, their own Churches, and their own schools. They were different and strange, and people always fear the different and strange. Old line protestants, who were descended from families who had been in this country for a couple hundred years, did not understand the Catholic religion, they had been brought up to feel as it it were idol worship, and other strange things. They feared the difference and what they thought was antithetical to their religion.Alexandro Russel
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∙ 11y agoThat the Catholic Church would take control of the country.
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AnswerPersonally, I was raised in a protestant family, my one grandmother was the child of immigrants from Catholic Ireland. Protestants came to this country to get away from Catholics, or in the case of the English, away from Anglicans; and this country was started with a combination of protestant and Deist principles. Catholics were regarded as "foreigners" who had a strange religion celebrated in a language that no one understood. They tended to congregate in their own neighborhoods, their own Churches, and their own schools. They were different and strange, and people always fear the different and strange. Old line protestants, who were descended from families who had been in this country for a couple hundred years, did not understand the Catholic religion, they had been brought up to feel as it it were idol worship, and other strange things. They feared the difference and what they thought was antithetical to their religion.Add your answer:
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What led to the forming of the Know-Nothing Party?
The forming of the Know-Nothing Party came from the strong anti-immigrant and anti-Roman Catholic sentiment due to the rise of immigrants that was thought to pose a threat to the economic and political security of native-born Protestant Americans.
Americans began to fear foreigners and recent immigrants because of the what?
Americans began to fear immigrants because of a perception that the immigrants were a threat to American job security. There is a thought that immigrants depress wages, and this affects the American worker.
What did nativist fear immigrants would do the 1890s?
Take jobs away from Americans
Americans began to fear foreigners and recent immigrants because of the?
all of the answers are correct
What made Americans began to fear foreingners and recent immigrants?
September 1, 2001
The result Of nativism in usa after ww1?
Nativism resulted in a conflict between Americans that were born in America and the immigrants because the government favored the immigrants and the Americans felt as if the immigrants should be treated the same way as Americans.
What did nativists fear immigrants would do in the 1890?
Take jobs away from Americans
Why were so many Americans against the new immigrants?
Americans began to fear foreigners and recent immigrants because of the _______
What is navism?
Belief of 'native born' Americans were true. Fear of Immigrants and foregn communists and ancarchys. Ku Klux Klan embraced.
What is the dominant fear Americans born in the US have of the recent wave of immigration?
The new immigrants threaten the primacy of the English language and will take jobs.
Why did Americans oppose immigration during this time period?
There is always a certain amount of fear that immigrants are going to compete with Americans for jobs, and Americans will wind up unemployed as a result. Of course, an economy does not have only a specific number of jobs, and immigrants can also start new businesses and employ people, besides which, everybody is an immigrant or the descendant of immigrants (even Native Americans; they just immigrated earlier than anybody else).
What was the KnowNothing party and what was its point of view about immigrants?
A growing fear of immigrants & catholics
