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According to Cas Mudde, a University of Georgia professor, nativism is a largely American notion that is rarely debated in Western Europe or Canada; the word originated with mid-19th-century political parties in the United States, most notably the Know Nothing party, which saw Catholic immigration from nations such as Germany and Ireland as a serious threat to native-born Protestant Americans. [4]
When immigration rates to the nation exploded in the 1840s and 1850s, nativism ran with a renewed fervor, with the word nativism itself coined by 1844, and the formation of the Know Nothing Party. In the late 19th century, going into the early 20th, nativism began to reappear.
Immigrants fears were unjustified, however, because the national debate over slavery and its expansion, not nativism or anti-Catholicism, was the major reason for Know-Nothing success in the South. The southerners who supported the Know-Nothings did so, for the most part, because they thought the Democrats who favored the expansion of slavery ...
The term Know-Nothing Riot has been used to refer to a number of political uprisings of the Know Nothing Party in the United States of the mid-19th century. These anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic protests culminated into riots in Philadelphia in 1844; St. Louis in 1854, Cincinnati and Louisville in 1855; Baltimore in 1856; Washington, D.C., and New York City in 1857; and New Orleans in 1858.
"For the Honor and Glory of God: The Philadelphia Bible Riots of 1840", History of Education Quarterly, 8#1 (1968), pp. 44–106 in JSTOR; McGovern, Bryan Patrick. "Andrew Jackson and the Protestant Irish of Philadelphia: Early Nineteenth-Century Sectarianism" Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (2020) 87 (2): 313–337. online
The U.S. will only have a sensible and workable immigration system when it reckons with and uproots its 100-year-old problem of nativism. Century-old U.S. nativism keep immigration reform elusive ...
Baltimore street gangs formed in the early 19th century but became more formally organized around the 1830s. [11] The New Market Fire Company became notorious in Baltimore, often feuding with the gang called the Rip Raps. [12] Street gangs in Baltimore developed connections with politicians from opposing political parties in the 1830s. [13]
Anti-Catholic sentiments in the U.S. reached a peak in the 19th century, when the Protestant population became alarmed by the large number of Catholics who were immigrating to the United States from Ireland and Germany. The resulting anti-Catholic nativist movement, achieved prominence in the 1840s and 1850s. It had largely faded away before ...