All posts tagged "Know Nothing"
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18.5Kboston7 Fun Facts About the Boston Irish
George Washington famously acknowledge the Boston Irish on March 17, 1776, when he ordered new code words to pass through Continental Army...
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16.1KNew HampshireThe Catholic Test – When New Hampshire Outlawed Catholics
New Hampshire’s Constitution, adopted in 1784, had some of the toughest restrictions on religious freedom in the new United States. It stated...
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28.1K1ConnecticutThe Secret Killer of the Waterbury Radium Girls
Frances Splettscher was the first of the Waterbury radium girls to die. In 1921 at the age of 17, she had gone...
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16.8K2MaineFr. John Bapst Survives Tar & Feathers, Becomes 1st Boston College President
John Bapst, a Swiss Jesuit priest, arrived in New York City in 1848 just as Know Nothing bigotry gathered force in the...
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25.1K21MassachusettsAnti-Irish Know Nothing Mob Burns a Charlestown Convent in 1834
The Know Nothing Party first manifested itself in Massachusetts in 1834 with the burning and pillaging of a convent in Charlestown. It...
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