Was there ever a time that the US could have been anti-(insert race or religion) before 1900? The only times I think this could have happened are 1812 and the Civil War.
Was there ever a time that the US could have been anti-(insert race or religion) before 1900? The only times I think this could have happened are 1812 and the Civil War.
Pretty much this.Yeah, the US was a slave state until 1865, and afterward it was an apartheid state until 1965. It was also genocidal (against indigenous people) until around 1900.
In the mid-1800s, there were anti-Catholic nativists. A lot of Californians were prejudiced against Chinese immigrants, while East Coast Americans didn't necessarily like all those Irish and Italians coming to New York.
Then there's the whole slavery thing ...
I think that the anti-Catholic sentiments are the best place to start. If the know-nothings become popular enough America shuts the door on non Anglo-saxon immigrants and the idea of America as a nation develops. At any later point the idea of America as a nation of immigrants is too entrenched.
Was there ever a time that the US could have been anti-(insert race or religion) before 1900? The only times I think this could have happened are 1812 and the Civil War.