Order of the Star-Spangled Banner

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The Order of the Star-Spangled Banner was a secretive 19th-century American nativist society that formed the core of the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic Know-Nothing political movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf nativist society
political organization
secret society
activeInCentury 19th century
associatedWith American Party
basedOn Protestant nationalism
characteristic clandestine meetings
secretive membership
use of oaths
use of rituals
coreOf Know-Nothing movement
surface form: Know Nothing political movement
country United States of America
surface form: United States
fieldOfActivity anti-immigrant agitation
electoral politics
political mobilization
hasGoal limit political power of immigrants
preserve Protestant cultural dominance in the United States
hasNameOrigin Star-Spangled Banner, national symbol of the United States
hasPoliticalPosition opposition to Catholic political influence
restriction of immigration
support for Protestant political dominance
support for longer naturalization periods
support for native-born Americans in public office
historicalContext Antebellum period
surface form: antebellum United States

rise of mass immigration to the United States
ideology anti-Catholicism
anti-immigrant politics
nativism
influenced American Party
inspired nativist political campaigns in the 1850s United States
language English
membershipPolicy restricted to native-born Protestants
movement Know-Nothing movement
surface form: Know Nothing movement
notableFor anti-Catholic agitation
role in Know Nothing movement
secretive political organizing
opposed Catholic immigrants
German Catholic immigrants
Irish Catholic immigrants
opposedReligion Roman Catholicism
organizationalForm fraternal-style order
partOf Know-Nothing movement
surface form: Know Nothing movement
politicalOrientation right-wing populism
xenophobic politics
religiousOrientation Protestant
scope national organization in the United States
typeOfSecrecy oath-bound society

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Know-Nothing movement alsoKnownAs Order of the Star-Spangled Banner
Know-Nothing movement emergedFrom Order of the Star-Spangled Banner
American Party originatedFrom Order of the Star-Spangled Banner
this entity surface form: Order of the Star Spangled Banner