NATIVISM

The tales told about Catholics were almost beyond belief:

-brutality,incesd, sadism, idolatory, infanaticide

Some prominent people were strong anti-Catholics

-- Samuel B. Morse [inventor of the telegraph]

halt to immigration; relocation of Catholics to specific restricted areas of resettlement

Know-Nothing Party [native-born Protestants]:

• Organized 1854
  Opposed to immigration
  • 70 congressional seats
  • 4 governorships
  • control of 12 lower houses in state governments

  ANTI MOVEMENTS NEED APOSTATES

  -- when apostates were is short supply they were manufactured

  -- the most awful tale (Maria Monk) was a fraud