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Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin
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> Irish Immigration and the Know-Nothings
Irish Immigration and the Know-Nothings
Irish Immigration and
the Know-Nothings
Boston Before
Why were the
immigrants coming?
Irish Immigration
German Immigration
Massachusetts Opinion
on Immigration
Governmental Policies
The Election of 1854
Henry J. Gardner
Governor’s Addresses
More of Gardner’s
suggestions
Know-Nothing
Legislation
Bostonian opinions
of the Know-Nothings
In the long term...
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Irish Immigration and the Know-Nothings
Boston in the mid-1850s
