WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Democrat
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Republican
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Know Nothing
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Irish Society
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Know Nothing party was a nativist political party and movement in the United States in the mid-1850s. The party was officially known as the “Native American Party” prior to 1855 and thereafter, it was simply known as the “American Party".
Detailed explanation-2: -These people feared competition for jobs from immigrants coming to the United States. Critics of this party named it the Know-Nothing Party because it was a secret organization. Its members would not reveal the party’s doctrines to non-members.
Detailed explanation-3: -Know-Nothing party, byname of American Party, U.S. political party that flourished in the 1850s. It was an outgrowth of the strong anti-immigrant and especially anti-Roman Catholic sentiment that started to manifest itself during the 1840s.