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The 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. Members of the movement were required to say "I know nothing" whenever they were asked about its specifics by ...
The Know Nothing party had a marching song they chanted in 1855: [15] The Natives are up, d'ye see... They have seen a foreign band, By a servile priesthood led, Polluting this Eden-land, And the graves of the patriot dead. The boy and the bearded man, Have left the sweets of home, To resist a ruthless clan--The knaves of the Church of Rome ...
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.
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]
The Know-Nothing Party's central policies were nativist, or hostile to immigrants. Nativists feared that the immigrants would use their voting power to elect unsuitable politicians, given the generalization that immigrants were aligned with radical political groups and typically worked in low paying jobs. [2] Know-Nothing policies were highly ...
The do-nothing Congress of 2024 is a drag on America and an affront to our nation's voters. ... The Republican Party must be called out for what it has become: an unpatriotic, anti-democratic tool ...
On July 5, Trump posted on Truth Social that he knows “nothing about Project 2025,” has “no idea who is behind it,” and has “nothing to do with them.” This is false.
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge ...