The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, strongly suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then an 48 year old senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York.
American Protestants were afraid of the increased catholic immigration since <u>they felt threatened by the idea of America becoming a Catholic country. </u>
- On the one hand, Catholics believed a different Christianity than Protestants. Protestants, as opposed to the Catholic church, thought the following:
- Less hierarchy in church structure.
- The Bible and, not the sacraments, as source of revelation from God
- Jesus as the only necessary intercessor with God.
- There was an prejudice from anti-catholics that has to do with social class or status of the inmigrants. <u>Protestants from upper classes</u>, believed that the inmigrants were poor, therefore, they associated them with crime, danger and laziness.
- The fear from the American protestants created by the massive flow of catholic inmigrants, was so big that even a popular national organization, the <u>American Protective Association</u>, was founded to promote anti-Catholicism.
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<span>They built aqueducts that carried water from the hills to the city.</span>
