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.

Exact synonyms: American Party
Generic synonyms: Party, Political Party

Lexicographical Neighbors of Know-nothing Party

Knightia
Knights Bachelor
Knights Batchelor
Knights Templar
Kniphofia praecox
Kniphofia uvaria
Knoll
Knoll's glands
Knollenorgan
Knollenorgans
Knoop
Knoop's theory
Knoop hardness number
Knossos
Know-Nothing
Know-Nothing Party
Know-Nothingism
Knowledge Interchange Format
Knowlton's cactus
Knox
Knoxville
Knuckles
Knudsen flow
Knudsen flows
Knut
Knut Hamsun
Knut Pedersen
Koasati
Kobarid

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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