Know-Nothing movement

The so-called Know-Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1850s. It grew up as a popular reaction to the large numbers of immigrants—mostly Irish Roman Catholics—entering the United States starting in the late 1840s, and was characterized by calls for a number of measures to maintain the United States as a nation of Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

Related Topics:
Nativist - American - 1850s - Immigrant - Irish - Roman Catholics - 1840s - Anglo-Saxon - Protestants

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The official name of the political party was the American Party; "Know-Nothing" was a political epithet used by the party's opponents, although it was later adopted by its supporters.

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