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On or about 1849, Charles B. Allen founded the New York-based secret society
Order of the Star Spangled Banner during the rise of the
Know Nothing Party and the rise of
nativism in the United States.
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References
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^ Anbinder, Tyler (1992). Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. Oxford University Press. p. 20.
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"Library of Congress".