The Know-Nothing party rose and flourished in the 1850s because of its strong anti-immigrant and anti-Roman Catholic views in the US.
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- The decline in Immigration in the mid-1850s resulted in a decline of nativism
- The failure of Know Nothing-dominated legislatures to make good their campaign promises enabled critics to claim that the movement did nothing
- Some americans hated the secretive side of the movement
A growing fear of immigrant and Catholics
A growing fear of immigrants and Catholics
The Know-Nothing Party was officially known as the American Party. The were anti-immigration and anti-Catholic. They were called the Know-Nothings because they kept their organization semi-secret and when they were asked about it they would say, 'I know nothing.'
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novanet - Know-Nothing Party
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The know-nothing party had huge mistrust of migrants
The Know-Nothing party was also referred to as the American party. This party originated in 1849 and it collapsed in 1855.
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split of northern democrats, whigs, know nothing party, free soil party, liberty party. all formed to make republican party
the know-nothing party
Opposition to Immigration to America caused the american party also called the know-nothing party to rise.