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After the 1865 crackdown in Ireland, the American organization began to fracture over what to do next. Made up of veterans of the American [[US Civil War|Civil War]], a Fenian army had been formed. While O'Mahony and his supporters wanted to remain focused on supporting rebellions in [[Ireland]] a competing faction, called the Roberts, or senate wing, wanted this Fenian Army to attack British bases in [[Canada]]. The resulting [[Fenian Raids]] strained US–British relations. The level of American support for the Fenian cause began to diminish as the Fenians were seen as a threat to stability in the region.
The Irish were still seen as a foreign people within the borders of the American state by anti-Catholic Americans such as members of the [[Know-Nothing Party]]; their existence within America was seen primarily as temporary camps of immigrants who planned to stay in America only as long as the British stayed in Ireland. Upon the British withdrawal from Irish soil, it was believed, the Irish immigrants would return to their native land. The Fenian Raids were seen as an astonishing example of [[immigrant]] activity in US history and Irish nationalism has itself become something of an exception among the American melting pot. Very few US immigrants concerned themselves with their mother country as did the Irish; in March 1868, 100,000 Fenian supporters held an anti-British demonstration in New York
==Creation of Clan na Gael==
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