History repeats itself again – Their members refused to talk about what the secret society had accomplished, and were instructed by leaders to respond to questions with “I know nothing.” You get one guess what it was next called. This is how the political birth canals and swamps dropped the baby Know Nothings in a White Christian country.
Who’d a Thunk It? The Reincarnation and Resurrection of a Third Political Party! In 1853, a secret American society known as the Order of the Star Spangled Banner…
Yep – nationalists in disguise, they were a party opposed to the holding of public office by immigrants or Roman Catholics. The Know-Nothings, also known as “nativists,” insisted that only true, “native” Americans should serve in the government. The party was quite successful in the 1850s but split over the slavery question. Its official name was the American party. It picked up the “Know-Nothing” tag because its members, maintaining secrecy about the party’s activities, customarily answered questions with, “I know nothing.”
Republicans are the 21st-century Know-Nothing Party
I assume you mean the political party right? – interesting, the main aim of the Know-Nothing movement was to combat foreign influences and to uphold and promote traditional American ways. Traditional as in Native.
How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics
Here we go again “if ya don’t like merikkka, git the heck out!”
History repeats itself again – Their members refused to talk about what the secret society had accomplished, and were instructed by leaders to respond to questions with “I know nothing.” You get one guess what it was next called. This is how the political birth canals and swamps dropped the baby Know Nothings in a White Christian country.
Yep – nationalists in disguise, they were a party opposed to the holding of public office by immigrants or Roman Catholics. The Know-Nothings, also known as “nativists,” insisted that only true, “native” Americans should serve in the government. The party was quite successful in the 1850s but split over the slavery question. Its official name was the American party. It picked up the “Know-Nothing” tag because its members, maintaining secrecy about the party’s activities, customarily answered questions with, “I know nothing.”
I assume you mean the political party right? – interesting, the main aim of the Know-Nothing movement was to combat foreign influences and to uphold and promote traditional American ways. Traditional as in Native.