What contributed to the growth of the Know-Nothing movement in the mid-1850s?

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What contributed to the growth of the Know-Nothing movement in the mid-1850s?

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Answer 1 · 2017-05-14T07:42:42

Catholic immigration

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The Know-Nothing was made of wasps(White anglo-saxon protestants) who contested the fact that anyone else could be American.

In 1850 there was a very high wave of immigration from Ireland(due to the famine), they rejected it vividly because it drove Catholics into the country.

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