Old Stock Americans
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Old Stock American is a colloquial name for Americans who are descended from the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies. Historically, Old Stock Americans have been mainly Protestants from Northwe
Cartoon from Puck, August 9, 1899 by J. S. Pughe. Uncle Sam sees hyphenated voters and asks, "Why should I let these freaks cast whole ballots when they are only half Americans?" The first five men are labeled Irish-American, German-American, French-American, Italian-American, and Hungarian-American.
The first self-governing document of Plymouth Colony. English Pilgrims signing the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
Know Nothing
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The American Party, known as the Native American Party before 1855 and colloquially referred to as the Know Nothing, Know-Nothings, or the Know Nothing Party, was an Old Stock nativist political movem
Old Stock Americans
…in 1962. Beginning in the 1840s, millions of German and Irish Catholics immigrated to fill new jobs in the rapidly industrializing United States. The Know Nothing movement emerged with an anti-Catholic platform in the North. It had brief success in the mid 1850s, but subsequently collapsed. Its presidential candidate…
Digital Reproduction of the Know Nothing Party Flag
Uncle Sam's youngest son, Citizen Know Nothing, an 1854 print
Fillmore–Donelson campaign poster
An 1855 Ohio Know Nothing Party ticket naming party candidates for state and county offices. At the bottom of the page are voting instructions.