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Date Posted: Sun February 28, 2016 19:50:29
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Too bad there's no Abe Lincoln in the wings
's message, "I think that the GOP is heading the way of the Whigs" on Sun February 28, 2016 19:48:25
The Native American Party, renamed in 1855 as the American Party, and commonly known as the Know Nothing movement, was an American political party that operated on a national basis during the mid-1850s.
The movement arose in response to an influx of migrants, and promised to "purify" American politics by limiting or ending the influence of Irish Catholics and other immigrants, thus reflecting nativist and anti-Catholic sentiment. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, whom they saw as hostile to republican values, and as being controlled by the Pope in Rome. Mainly active from 1854 to 1856, the movement strove to curb immigration and naturalization, but met with little success. Membership was limited to Protestant men. There were few prominent leaders, and the largely middle-class membership was fragmented over the issue of slavery.
The most prominent leaders were U.S. Representative Nathaniel P. Banks,[1] and former U.S. Representative Lewis C. Levin. The American Party nominated former President Millard Fillmore in 1856; however, he was never a member, nor a nativist.
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