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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-nineteenth-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 ...
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.
In the late 19th century, Democrats called the Republicans "Know Nothings" in order to secure the votes of Germans which is exactly what they did in the Bennett Law campaign in Wisconsin in 1890. [74] [75] A similar culture war took place in Illinois in 1892, where Democrat John Peter Altgeld denounced the Republicans:
This is a list of political entities in the 19th century AD (i.e. 1801–1900). It includes both sovereign states, self-declared unrecognized states, and any political predecessors of current sovereign states.
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 ...
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.
The Spanish American wars of independence (Spanish: Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) took place across the Spanish Empire in the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres began shortly after the outbreak of the Peninsular War, forming part of the broader context of the Napoleonic Wars.
In HBO’s new series “The Gilded Age,” a frequently glossed-over aspect of African American history is put in the spotlight.