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To be completely ignorant or uninformed (about something). Don't ever second-​guess my judgment again, you hear me? You don't know from nothing! Don't.
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Members, when asked about their nativist organizations, were supposed to reply that they knew nothing, hence the name. As its membership and importance grew in the s, the group slowly shed its clandestine character and took the official name American Party. As a national political entity, it called for restrictions on immigration , the exclusion of the foreign-born from voting or holding public office in the United States , and for a year residency requirement for citizenship.

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By the Know-Nothing party was achieving phenomenal growth. It did very well that year in state and local elections, and with passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in it won additional adherents from the ranks of conservatives who could support neither the proslavery Democrats nor antislavery Republicans. When Congress assembled on Dec. That, however, was the peak of Know-Nothing power.

At the American Party convention in Philadelphia the following year, the party split along sectional lines over the proslavery platform pushed through by Southern delegates. Party presidential candidate Millard Fillmore carried just one state Maryland in the election, and congressional strength dropped to 12 representatives.

Caught in the sectional strife disrupting all national institutions, the American Party fell apart after Antislavery Know-Nothings joined the Republican Party , while Southern members flocked to the proslavery banner still held aloft by the Democratic Party. Bell finished fourth in popular votes in the four-man contest of that year, won by the Republican Abraham Lincoln. One of these, organized in California in , proposed a briefly popular platform calling mainly for the exclusion of Chinese and other Asians from industrial employment.

Know-Nothing party. Article Media. Info Print Cite. But the party splintered and then disintegrated over the politics of slavery. The Know Nothings filled the power void before the Whigs had even ceased to exist, choosing to ignore slavery and focus all their energy on the immigrant question. Though short-lived, the values and positions of the Know Nothings ultimately contributed to the two-party system we have today. Thomas R. Whitney, the son of a silversmith who opened his own shop, wrote the magnum opus of the Know Nothings, A Defense of the American Policy.

Whitney and Poole were from different social classes, but both had an enormous impact on their chosen party—and their paths crossed at a pivotal moment in the rise of nativism. In addition to being a successful engraver, Whitney was an avid reader of philosophy, history and classics.

He moved from reading to writing poetry and, eventually, political tracts. Whitney believed in government action, but not in service of reducing social inequality. From to , anywhere from 10, to , immigrants entered the U. Then, as a consequence of economic instability in Germany and a potato famine in Ireland, those figures turned from a trickle into a tsunami. Between and , 2. Suddenly, more than half the residents of New York City were born abroad, and Irish immigrants comprised 70 percent of charity recipients.

As cultures clashed, fear exploded and conspiracies abounded. Louis and San Francisco.

At the same time as this influx of immigrants reshaped the makeup of the American populace, the old political parties seemed poised to fall apart. Phillips says the Know Nothings displayed three patterns common to all other nativist movements. First is the embrace of nationalism—as seen in the writings of the OSSB. Second is religious discrimination: in this case, Protestants against Catholics rather than the more modern day squaring-off of Judeo-Christians against Muslims. Lastly, a working-class identity exerts itself in conjunction with the rhetoric of upper-class political leaders.

As historian Elliott J. No person exemplified this veneration of the working class more than Poole.

Despite gambling extravagantly and regularly brawling in bars, Poole was a revered party insider, leading a gang that terrorized voters at polling places in such a violent fashion that one victim was later reported to have a bite on his arm and a severe eye injury. The two exchanged insults and both pulled out guns. But before the fight could turn violent, police arrived to break it up. Later that night, though, Poole returned to the hall and grappled with Morrissey's men, including Lewis Baker, a Welsh-born immigrant, who shot Poole in the chest at close range.

Although Poole survived for nearly two weeks, he died on March 8. Approximately , people flooded lower Manhattan to pay their respects to the great American. Nor did admirers care that Poole had a prior case against him for assault with intent to kill.

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Included in their number were local politicians, volunteer firemen, a piece band, members of the OSSB—and Thomas R. Whitney, about to take his place in the House of Representatives as a member of the Know Nothing Caucus. But instead of continuing to grow, the Know Nothings collapsed under the pressure of having to take a firm position on the issue the slavery. By the late s, the case of Dred Scott who sued for his freedom and was denied it and the raids led by abolitionist John Brown proved that slavery was a more explosive and urgent issue than immigration.

America fought the Civil War over slavery, and the devastation of that conflict pushed nativist concerns to the back of the American psyche. From the end of the 19th century to the first third of the 20th, Asian immigrants were excluded from naturalization based on their non-white status.

Those debates and regulations continue today, over refugees from the Middle East and immigrants from Latin America. You have to realize the context is different, but the themes are consistent. The actors are still the same, but with different names. Continue or Give a Gift.

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