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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 ...
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 ...
The ideology of nativism —favoring native inhabitants, as opposed to immigrants—has been very common and contentious within American politics for centuries. Nativist movements have been around since even before American independence, and have targeted a wide variety of nationalities. Historically, nativism was present even in colonial America. During that era, anti-German feelings ...
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 alternative is ugly. If Trump governs the way the nativists want, it will deprive American businesses of talented workers, weaken the economy, and strengthen the hand of geopolitical opponents ...
Lewis Charles Levin (November 10, 1808 – March 14, 1860) was an American politician, newspaper editor and anti-Catholic social activist. He was one of the founders of the American Party in 1842 and served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1845 to 1851.
The official name of the nativist "Know Nothing" party after 1855; The American Party (Utah), an anti-Mormon party that existed in Utah from 1905 to 1911; A party established in 1909 to put the Iowa-based United Christian Party (United States) into new organizational form; The American Party (1914), a party organized by ex-governor of New York ...
Bush has bemoaned the Republican Party becoming “isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist” in the Trump era, but has held back from criticizing Trump by name.