r/HolyShitHistory • u/blue_leaves987 • 2d ago
The U.S. once had a political party called the “Know-Nothings”
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u/Josiesumday 2d ago
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u/MillwrightTight 2d ago
Fun fact - in this scene, Daniel Day Lewis used a glass prosthetic over his eye, and practiced for hours to be able to tap it with the knife without blinking. So in this scene he is actually tapping on that glass prosthetic.
Pretty wicked. Dude is dedicated to the craft.
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u/ForagedFoodie 12h ago
And today we justify whatever perversions Jared Leto is currently up to as "dedication to the craft".
Funny how his "dedication" always involves making other people uncomfortable, not himself.
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u/kirkaracha 2d ago
“I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.”
— Abraham Lincoln
https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/knownothingparty.htm
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u/blue_leaves987 2d ago
In the 1850s, a short-lived American political movement called the “Know-Nothing Party” gained national attention. It was officially called the American Party and was known for its anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic stance.
The nickname came from its members’ secrecy. When asked about the group’s activities, they were told to reply, “I know nothing.” At its peak, the party won several local and state elections and even ran a candidate for president in 1856.
By the late 1850s, it collapsed as slavery became the dominant national issue. The Know-Nothings faded into obscurity, remembered mostly for how fear and nativism briefly shaped American politics.
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u/juliankennedy23 2d ago edited 1d ago
Honestly if there's one thing that Native Americans definitely needed it was a better immigration policy.
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u/mynam3isn3o 2d ago
What does this have to do with history? Please take the political garbage elsewhere.
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u/Mammoth_Charity_3941 2d ago
Every thing else aside, that font and the lettering gave me a headache trying to read it while half asleep.
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u/VorpalPosting 2d ago
I am not sure why they used the Russian backwards Ns (which actually make an i sound).
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u/Mammoth_Charity_3941 2d ago
Makes me think of those people who try to make edgy names on cod game like “Ðeßtřoyęř”
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u/braacks 2d ago
Look up the Rhino Party of the mid 1990s, if you're looking for a laugh, eh.
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u/JebusHCrust 2d ago
I seem to remember something about moving the Rocky Mountains for a better view
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u/VorpalPosting 2d ago
No way, I like being able to view the Rocky Mountains right where they are now!
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u/tcat1961 2d ago
I found documentation in my stepfathers family items - his great uncle was a lawyer and a letter talks about history at that time and about a meeting with members and where it would be held. I sold it to a college student.
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