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Not very well... America is historically Anti-Catholic so when thousands of Irish, who are traditionally Catholic, began pouring into cities like Boston and New York many nativists (well as of the past century or so) were worried and disgusted. There were many sterotypes made of the Irish such as they were drunks, swearing, pugnacious, and barbarous but above all because they were Catholic they were thought to be more devoted to the Pope than to America. They also worked for cheap on things such as the Erie Canal and construction which further made people think of them as peasants. The fear of imigration, especially that of the Irish, led to nativist politcal parties such as the Know Nothings. On the whole Catholics in general were treated badly and churches were often burned down or attacked but the Irish especially were looked down upon as sub-human and immoral.

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