Know Nothing
The party name gained wide but brief popularity. Nativism became a new American rage: Know Nothing candy, Know Nothing tea, and Know Nothing toothpicks appeared. Stagecoaches were dubbed "The Know Nothing". In Trescott, Maine, a shipowner dubbed his new 700-ton freighter "Know Nothing." The party was occasionally referred to, contemporaneously, in a slightly pejorative shortening, "Knism."