In addition to their influence over religious practice, the Know Nothings impacted immigrant political behavior profoundly, as well. Before the 1840s, immigrants split their votes among the different parties. When the Know Nothing terror began, immigrants began to vote solidly Democratic.

Nativism is the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures. …

Why did the Know-Nothings become popular? they reflected the growing differences between the sections. was primarily a sectional party.

As a national political entity, it called for restrictions on immigration, the exclusion of the foreign-born from voting or holding public office in the United States, and for a 21-year residency requirement for citizenship. By 1852 the Know-Nothing party was achieving phenomenal growth.

The Know-Nothings: the United States’ first anti-immigration party. The movement, comprised principally of native-born, white, Anglo-Saxon males, came into being in the 1850s, grew rapidly, and waned almost as quickly. They felt there was a conspiracy by the pope to try to influence and take over American politics.

The party was formed to oppose what its members perceived as the growing political power of the South during the 1850s and to oppose the extension of slavery into newly acquired Western territories.

Martin Van Buren

Why did Nativists not want immigrants to become United States citizens? What was the rationale behind the nativists forming the Know Nothing Party? They wanted to prevent immigrants and Catholic people from being elected into a political office. What was the Know Nothing Party also known as?

William Lloyd Garrison

The Liberty Party (1840) was a minor political party in the US. The party advocated for the abolitionist cause, and broke away from the American Anti-Slavery Society. The party advocated that the Cosntitution was an anti-slavery document.

The Liberty Party opposed the spread of slavery.

The party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause and it broke away from the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) to advocate the view that the Constitution was an anti-slavery document….Liberty Party (United States, 1840)

Abolitionist groups gained significant social and political traction from the 1830s on. One prominent abolitionist group of this time formed its own political third party, called The Liberty Party of 1840. This Party wanted to work within the political system to abolish slavery.

James G. Birney

Due to the Liberty Party’s poor showing in both the elections of 1840 and 1844, the organization came to an end. Many former party members joined the Free-Soil Party, which ran its first candidate for the presidency in 1848.

How did the emergence of the Liberty Party in the election of 1844 reflect the growing mood of the North against slavery? On a national level, the north and south were growing increasingly at odds and slavery has the potential to expand into previously free states.