The Know Nothing Political Party was made up of mostly of

It was primarily an anti-Catholic, anti-immigration, populist and xenophobic movement, although it was also progressive in its stances on "issues of labor rights, opposition to slavery, and the need for more government spending" as well as for its "support for an expansion of the rights of women, regulation of industry

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