Which of the following was not one of the responses of American workers to the economic difficulties of the 1830s and 1840s?
A) They attacked Irish Catholic immigrants.
B) They struck for wage increases.
C) They established rural republican townships.
D) They attempted to form labor unions.
E) They joined forces to buy factories and run them as cooperative, employee-owned companies.
Question 2
Which of the factors was not a basis for the anti-Catholic sentiment in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s?
A) The perception that Catholic immigrants' took jobs away from native workers.
B) There were reports of Catholic conspiracies to take over the country.
C) Many native-born Americans' identified the Irish with radical abolitionist activity.
D) There were tales of torture and immorality within Catholic convents.
E) There was a strong anti-Catholic impulse among American Protestants since the early Puritan days.
