One of the reasons republican herbert hoover was elected president in 1928 was that his opponet was catholic?

Question

True or False?

Answer 1

True.
Alfred Smith was Catholic but the American voters were not ready for a Catholic in 1928.
The Republican Party was riding high on the economic boom of the 1920s, which their presidential candidate Herbert Hoover pledged to continue. Historians agree that the prosperity along with anti-Catholic sentiment made Hoover's election inevitable, although he had never run for office. He defeated Smith by a landslide in the 1928 election.
Hoover's term was a disaster, the start of the great depression.
Anti Catholic sentiment would end with the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960.

Answer 2

That is very true.

NY Governor Alfred E. Smith ran against Herbert Hoover in 1928 for President.

Smith was the first Roman Catholic to gain a major party's nomination for President, and his religion became an issue during the campaign. Many Protestants feared that Smith would take orders from church leaders in Rome in making decisions affecting the country.

Answer 3

True. In that election, the Republicans tried to paint the Democratic Party as the party of Rum (the repeal of prohibition), Romanism (Smith's Catholicism), and Rebellion (the last time that the Civil War was used as a campaign theme by the Republicans).