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• Know Nothing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  When asked about these secret organizations, members were to reply "I know nothing," which led to their popularly being called Know Nothings. This movement won elections in major ...

• Know-Nothing movement — Infoplease.com

  Hence members were called Know-Nothings, although there was never a political organization bearing the name. Efforts were concentrated on electing only native-born Americans to ...

• Welcome to The American Presidency

  Know-Nothings claimed that the immigrants—who were principally Irish and Roman Catholic—threatened to destroy the American experiment. The Roman Catholic church, they charged ...