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Definition of Know-nothing party
1. Noun. A former political party in the United States; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Know-nothing Party
Literary usage of Know-nothing party
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"know-nothing party, The, resulted from nativism in American politics and from
... The principles of the know-nothing party were embodied in the following ..."
2. Autobiography of Seventy Years by George Frisbie Hoar (1905)
"CHAPTER XI THE KNOW NOTHING PARTY AND ITS OVERTHROW THE political history of
Massachusetts from 1846 to 1865 is, in general, the history of the share of the ..."
3. Annals of Iowa by Samuel Storrs Howe, Theodore Sutton Parvin, Frederick Lloyd, Sanford W. Huff, State Historical Society of Iowa, Charles Aldrich, Edgar Rubey Harlan, Iowa Historical Dept (1839)
"THE KNOW NOTHING PARTY IN DES MOINES COUNTY BY L. 0. ... about the year 1854, by
the Know Nothing party, ..."
4. Parties and Slavery, 1850-1859 by Theodore Clarke Smith (1906)
"CHAPTER X THE FAILURE OF THE know-nothing party (1854-1856) WHILE the course of
events in Kansas was leading, through violence and illegality, ..."
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