Question

In what way did loyalty to the United States factor into anti-Catholic sentiment during the 1800s?

Answer 1

During the 1830s and 1840s Americans with nativist sentiments made a concerted effort to enter into the local and national political arenas. Nativism's political relevance grew out of the increase of immigrants during the ‘20s and ‘30s and the anti-foreign writings that abounded during these decades. While pivoting between anti-foreign and anti-catholic appeals, nativism became both practical and ideological in nature: platforms for the movement ranged from extending the length naturalization to protecting the sacredness of the Protestant Republic. In New York city's 1844 elections, the nativist movement formed the American Republican Party, which allied with the Whigs and resulted in the defeat of the Democratic Party. This political advancement, although local and short lived, presented a glimpse of the national nativist power later found in the know- nothings. Clearly, early nineteenth-century nativism participated in significant political changes, and the goal of this paper is to summarize nativism between 1830 and 1845 while analyzing these major political developments

Answer 2

Anti-Catholicism in the United States is deeply rooted by British Protestants to the American colonies.  

There were two types of anti-Catholics existed in colonial society. They were,

First consisted of the Biblical Anti-Christ and dominated anti-Catholic thought until the late seventeenth century.

Second was a secular variety which derived in part from xenophobic and ethnocentric distrust towards increasing waves of Catholic immigrants. It often focused on the intrigues of Catholic states against the majority Protestant United States.

Hence, a strong anti-Catholic sentiment in America during the 1800s because the Americans wanted to maintain a white, Protestant nation.

Americans wanted to maintain a white, Protestant nation.

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