Anti-Catholicism is hostility towards or opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy and adherents.Catholics in Protestant countries were frequently suspected of conspiring against the state in furtherance of papal interests. Anti-Mormonism is discrimination, persecution, hostility or prejudice directed at members of the Latter Day Saint movement, particularly The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
It is conventional thinking now that colonists' grievances against the Crown were exaggerated. Their only main issue was taxation without representation, but this was standard for colonies. If the colonists had given in there would be no United states. <span />