The Know Nothing Party: The History and Legacy of America's Most Notorious Nativist Political Party

ISBN: 9798603428352
$9.99
*Includes pictures
*Includes a bibliography for further reading
“Immigration during the first five years of the 1850s reached a level five times greater than a decade earlier. Most of the new arrivals were poor Catholic peasants or laborers from Ireland and Germany who crowded into the tenements of large cities. Crime and welfare costs soared. Cincinnati's crime rate, for example, tripled between 1846 and 1853 and its murder rate increased sevenfold. Boston's expenditures for poor relief rose threefold during the same period.” - James McPherson
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