Nativists, particularly in the 1820s and 1830s, opposed the…
Nativists, particularly in the 1820s and 1830s, opposed the arrival of . They feared that the religious violence of the recent past in Europe would flare up in the United States with the arrival of this group; they also argued that this group could not think for themselves or adequately participate in American democracy and they believed that their religious leaders would sexually prey on young girls. People like Samuel F. B. Morse and the Second Great Awakening preacher Lyman Beecher spoke out against the social ills this group would bring to the United States while Rebecca Reed (a member of this group) recounted she and her peers were attacked by a mob in Boston in 1834.