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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



... adventure detailed in our last chapter, the American party, consisting of Major and Miss Montgomerie, and the daughters of the Governor, with their attendants, embarked in the schooner, to the command of which Gerald had been promoted. The destination of the whole was the American ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson
... watched with interest for the promised letter from the New York police, but day after day passed without bringing it. The American party lingered at the Liverpool hotel. Mrs. Patterson pleaded each day that she needed to rest a little longer before making the journey to Nantes. The doctor, called in to prescribe for her, looked grave ...
— Honey-Sweet • Edna Turpin


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


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