Anti-Catholicism in the United States

In the 18 beginning, in the early 18 forties, especially as americans serter considering texas annexation, talked about anglo saxons. They said they were superior by virtue of a few things. So their white anglo saxon protestants and republican government was safest with them. And many of them believed that republican government could even be found in the pages of the bible. That's transformed by this time into the sense that the mission of the united states is just to spread republican government,.