Know Nothing Poster, 1854
name: label: associated person
content: Washington, George
label: associated person
content: Fillmore, Millard
notes: label: Description
content: The American Party, also called the Know-Nothings, was a major national political force in the 1850s. It saw immigrants and Catholics as the greatest threat to self-government and to the nation. Arguing for rule by native-born Protestants, the Know-Nothings ran former President Millard Fillmore as their presidential candidate in the 1856 election. Though James Buchanan won the presidency, Fillmore received over 21 percent of the vote. During the Civil War the movement fractured and largely disappeared, but fear and distrust of new immigrants remained within the core beliefs of many future political movements. This 1850s advertising broadside is for The Dollar Weekly Times, an American Party-affiliated newspaper.
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
topic: label: general subject association
content: Political Campaigns
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content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1854.F01
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1854.F01
label: accession number
content: 227739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white, black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 3/4 in x 20 in; 70.485 cm x 50.8 cm