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American Party   /əmˈɛrəkən pˈɑrti/   Listen
American Party

noun
1.
A former political party in the United States; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics.  Synonym: Know-Nothing Party.






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"American Party" Quotes from Famous Books



... at all," replied Zuroaga, sadly. "The fact is, the Texan Yankees want a war for revenge, and the American party in power would like to annex a great deal more than Texas. President Paredes needs a war to keep himself in power and help him put on a crown. Old Santa Anna wants a war to give him a chance to return from exile and get control of the army. If we ever do reach Vera Cruz, we ...
— Ahead of the Army • W. O. Stoddard

... recognize the claims of women. The Republican, Democratic, Anti-Monopoly and Greenback parties equivocated, although the last two nominated Benjamin F. Butler, an avowed advocate of woman suffrage; the Prohibition convention relegated the question to the States[23]. The American party put in a plank and nominated S. C. Pomeroy, a champion of woman suffrage, but it had too small a following to offer any hope of success. Blaine was not a friend, Logan was an earnest one; Cleveland ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... [1] but the shrewd illustrations of "Common Sense," the homely force of its statements, and its concise and muscular English stirred the mind of every class. Even Paine's coarse epithets, "Common Ruffian," "Royal Brute of Britain," and the like, which offended the taste of the leaders of the American party,—for party-leaders were gentlemen in 1776,—had as much weight with the rank-and-file ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various



Words linked to "American Party" :   political party, Know-Nothing Party, party



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