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How did some Americans respond to the wave of Irish and German immigrants?

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In the United States, a surge of nativism occurred. Americans, who were Protestants, felt conflicted against the Catholic Irish and the Catholic/Lutheran German. This led to hostilities like the riots in Kentucky during the 1850s, where Protestants attacked Irish and German neighborhoods.

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With the vast numbers of German and Irish coming to America, hostility to them erupted. Part of the reason for the opposition was religious. All of the Irish and many of the Germans were Roman Catholic. Part of the opposition was political.

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