Nativists+&+Know+Nothing+Party

The Nativist and the know nothing party were a group of people who strongly disliked the immigration of people to the new world. They especially disliked the Germans, Irish and the Roman Catholics. The party rose up during the 1840’s and 1850’s. They began to win different elections of all levels of government. In the 1850’s it took the name of the American Party. They wanted to exclude all immigrants from all government positions.

Positive effects for this were that you would keep any sort of enemies from joining government. This would also keep the numbers in colonies a lot smaller. That would insure that people would have more resources and more land. This group of people also established a strong party for others to follow. They also wanted to create certain laws and rules people would have to follow to make the immigrants convert to be fully into the count The negative effects taken place with this were that there was discrimination throughout the whole country. With all these people gaining political power they would be able to create rules and laws that may be unfair for everyone.

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