The Catholic Church's reaction against the Protestant Reformation was referred to as the Counter-Reformation.
During Counter-Reformation, the efforts of the Roman Catholic were directed against the Protestant Reformation during the 16th century and then directed towards the internal renewal.
The Counter Reformation occurred before the act of Martin Luther where Ninety Five theses were mailed to the Castle Church door.
Because, predominantly in the agricultural Western region of the United States, the demand for cheap labor was extremely high at the time. The source of this cheap labor were Mexican immigrants.
