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The most prosperous immigrants were the British, followed by the Germans; the poorest were from Ireland.

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Many Germans and most Irish were Catholics and fueled the growth of the Catholic Church in America.

Many Germans and most Irish were Catholics and fueled the growth of the Catholic Church in America.

Because of the Protestant religious fervor stirred up by the Second Great Awakening, Catholic immigrants met with widespread hostility; in 1834, Samuel F. B.Morse published Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States, which warned of a Catholic threat to American republican institutions.

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Anti-Catholic sentiment intensified: mobs of unemployed workers attacked Catholics, and the Native American Clubs called for limits on immigration.

Anti-Catholic sentiment intensified: mobs of unemployed workers attacked Catholics, and the Native American Clubs called for limits on immigration.

Social reformers often supported the anti- Catholic movement because they wanted to prevent the diversion of tax resources to Catholic schools and to oppose alcohol abuse by Irish men.

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In most large northeastern cities, differences of class and culture led to violence and split the North in the same way that race and class divided the South.

In most large northeastern cities, differences of class and culture led to violence and split the North in the same way that race and class divided the South.

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