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Bookmark or Share- Know Nothing - WikipediaThe American Party, known as the Native American Party before 1855 [a] and colloquially referred to as the Know Nothings, or the Know Nothing Party, was an Old Stock nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s.
- How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American PoliticsKnow Nothings were the American political system’s first major third party. Early in the 19th century, two parties leftover from the birth of the United States were the...
- Know Nothing Party - New World EncyclopediaThe Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1850s. It grew up as a popular reaction to fears that major cities were being overwhelmed by Irish Catholic immigrants whom they regarded as hostile to American values and controlled by the Pope in Rome.
- Know-Nothing party | Definition, Platform, & Significance | BritannicaKnow-Nothing party, U.S. political party that flourished in the 1850s. It was an outgrowth of the strong anti-immigrant and especially anti- Roman Catholic sentiment that started to manifest itself during the 1840s.
- How Did the Know Nothings Impact the Second American Political Party ...The Know Nothings came into existence during the late 1840s and thrived during the tumultuous 1850s, when the second American political system was coming undone under the strains of slavery, sectionalism, nativism, and heavy immigration.
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