No-Nothing Party

The No-Nothing Party was an American political Party that existed in the 1840's and 1850's and eventually became one of the founding wings of the modern Republican Party. The Party was officially known as the American Party, was known for their nativist, anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant and anti-Democrat views, and was founded by the membership of The Society of The Star Spangled Banner. The Society began as a secret nativist social club formed to oppose the immigration of Germans and Irish Catholics into what was at that time majority English and Protestant parts of the Country, who's members were instructed to answer "I know nothing" when asked about the organization.