Encouraged by books such as The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, this belief sparked the Bloody Monday riots in Louisville in 1855.
In "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," Richard Hofstatder wrote that this belief "has always been the pornography of the Puritan." A book which fanned the flames of this belief described lurid sexual abuses against innocent girls in the Hotel Dieu. Lyman Beecher's speech "A Plea for the West" inspired an upsurge in this belief in New England. Encouraged by books such as The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, this belief sparked the Bloody Monday riots in Louisville in 1855. This belief inspired a Thomas Nast cartoon titled "The American River Ganges", in which crocodiles emerge from the water to attack American schoolchildren. Along with nativism, this prejudice was key to the growth of the Know-Nothing Party. In the 20th century, adherents of this prejudice viciously opposed the presidential campaign of Al Smith. For 10 points, name this view, which is hostile to adherents of the Bishop of Rome.
In "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," Richard Hofstatder wrote that this belief "has always been the pornography of the Puritan."
Anti-Catholicism [or anti-Roman Catholicism; or equivalents like anti-Catholic sentiment; prompt on nativism before mentioned; prompt on "anti-clericalism"]