Image of handwritten four-point party platform.
Letter by Abraham Lincoln written August 24, 1855.
Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia on the 1850s anti-immigrant movement.
Article on the 19th-century nativist party and movement.
Article on this nineteenth-century anti-immigration and anti-Catholic political party.
Article on the Know-Nothings, some of their prominent members, and their fear that the Vatican planned to take Cincinnati by military force.
Encyclopedia-style article on this nativist movement. Includes the platform of the American Party.
For teens. Although this political party didn't last for even ten years, its story can show something about America today.
The rise of the Know-Nothings marked the demise of the two-party system of the mid-nineteenth century, and was followed by regional political parties.
Article by George H. Haynes takes a look at the career of the Worcester (Massachusetts) Council of the American Party. As page images or scanned text. [The New England Magazine]
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