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The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by Irish Catholic immigrants, wh...
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The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from 1833 to 1856, the party was formed...
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Know-Nothing Party Platform (1856). http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/974.htm. AMERICAN PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES ADOPTED AT PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, ...
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America Votes; Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special Collections Library ... Know-Nothing Party - 1850s ... ; [Larger version of this item]
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Shrouded in secrecy, their members unwilling to be publicly recognized, the Know-Nothing party caused political uproar during the 1850s. They came out of nowhere and elected eight governors, more than 100 congressmen and the mayors of Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, all within four ... ; View the Know; Nothing Platform...
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1. An humble acknowledgment to the Supreme Being, for his protecting care vouchsafed to our fathers in their successful Revolutionary struggle and hitherto manifested to us, their descendants, in the preservation of the liberties, ... 2. The perpetuation of the Federal Union and Constitution, ... 3. Americans must rule America;
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political party that had its heyday in the 1840s and 1850s. Also known as the American Party, its members had a strong anti-immigrant stance that cut across slavery-abolitionist lines. The Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 brought many more members into the Know-Nothing fold. ... More on the Know-Nothing Party;
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The Know-Nothing Party Opposed Immigration to America ... The Know-Nothing Party Attracts Followers ... Platform of the Know-Nothing Party...
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The Republican Party absorbed anti-slavery Whigs and most Know-Nothings. It became more moderate in its stance on the exclusion of slavery and denounced John Brown's raid. The platform endorsed a protective tariff, the Homestead Act, and internal improvements.
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if, perhaps, in a somewhat varied and feebler form, nevertheless in their salient character- istics, closely modeled after the I^ow- Nothing party of 1854. In the pages of Von Hoist and Rhodes, in the special pleadings of Lee and Whitney, in more careful local studies such as those ... The Know-Xothings were not the inventors,
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