Articles relating to theKnow Nothings, anativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s, officially known as theNative American Party before 1855, and afterwards simply theAmerican Party. Supporters of the Know Nothing movement believed that an alleged "Romanist" conspiracy to subvert civil andreligious liberty in the United States was being hatched byCatholics. Therefore, they sought to politically organize native-bornProtestants in defense of their traditional religious and political values.
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