93-630: Egg Harbor may refer to the following places in the United States of America: New Jersey Egg Harbor City, New Jersey Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey Great Egg Harbor River Mullica River , formerly known as Little Egg Harbor River Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey Wisconsin Egg Harbor, Wisconsin Egg Harbor (town), Wisconsin See also [ edit ] Egg Harbour ,
186-503: A Catholic church in Bath, Maine . The most aggressive and innovative legislation came out of Massachusetts, where the new party controlled all but three of the 400 seats—only 35 had any previous legislative experience. The Massachusetts legislature in 1855 passed a series of reforms that "burst the dam against change erected by party politics, and released a flood of reforms." The period from 1854 to 1857 saw among Massachusetts Know Nothings
279-478: A decline in the traditional nativist wing of the party and the rise of the group of abolitionists and reformers, including former Massachusetts Senate President Henry Wilson , looking to redirect the focus of the party. Historian Stephen Taylor says that in addition to nativist legislation, "the party also distinguished itself by its opposition to slavery, support for an expansion of the rights of women, regulation of industry, and support of measures designed to improve
372-473: A field day following the story, especially when it was discovered that the key reformer was using committee funds to pay for a prostitute. The legislature shut down its committee, ejected the reformer, and saw its investigation become a laughing stock. The Know Nothings scored a landslide in New Hampshire in 1855. They won 51% of the vote, including 94% of the anti-slavery Free Soilers , and 79% of
465-639: A fourth of the German and British Protestants in numerous state elections. It especially appealed to Protestants such as the Lutherans, Dutch Reformed and Presbyterians. Fearful that Catholics were flooding the polls with non-citizens, local activists threatened to stop them. On August 6, 1855, rioting broke out in Louisville, Kentucky , during a hotly contested race for the office of governor. Twenty-two were killed and many injured. This " Bloody Monday " riot
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651-734: A minor role in American politics until the arrival of large numbers of Irish and German Catholics started in the 1840s. It then emerged in nativist attacks. It appeared in New York City politics as early as 1843 under the banner of the American Republican Party . The movement quickly spread to nearby states using that name or Native American Party or variants of it. They succeeded in a number of local and Congressional elections, notably in 1844 in Philadelphia, where
744-471: A political party called the American Party, which attracted many members of the by then nearly defunct Whig party as well as a significant number of Democrats. Membership in the American Party increased dramatically, from 50,000 to an estimated one million plus in a matter of months during that year. The historian Tyler Anbinder concluded: The key to Know Nothing success in 1854 was the collapse of
837-564: A reservoir at the center of a large urban park containing landscaped gardens, an arboretum , and a model farm . The Mullica River was proposed to be made navigable for commercial vessels, and the northern edge of the street grid along the river was to contain canals and wharfs for ships to dock. Egg Harbor City was officially incorporated as a city by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on June 14, 1858, from portions of Galloway Township and Mullica Township . The city
930-602: A total of 2,562 registered voters in Egg Harbor City, of which 851 (33.2% vs. 30.5% countywide) were registered as Democrats , 617 (24.1% vs. 25.2%) were registered as Republicans and 1,093 (42.7% vs. 44.3%) were registered as Unaffiliated . There was one voter registered to another party. Among the city's 2010 Census population, 60.4% (vs. 58.8% in Atlantic County) were registered to vote, including 80.4% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 76.6% countywide). In
1023-400: A turnout of 68.8% (vs. 69.8% in the whole county). In the 2013 gubernatorial election , Republican Chris Christie received 659 votes here (59.3% vs. 60.0% countywide), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 385 votes (34.7% vs. 34.9%) and other candidates with 16 votes (1.4% vs. 1.3%), among the 1,111 ballots cast by the city's 2,700 registered voters, yielding a 41.1% turnout (vs. 41.5% in
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#17327808253541116-526: A white man in court. In the spring of 1855 , Know Nothing candidate Levi Boone was elected mayor of Chicago and barred all immigrants from city jobs. Abraham Lincoln was strongly opposed to the principles of the Know Nothing movement, but did not denounce it publicly because he needed the votes of its membership to form a successful anti-slavery coalition in Illinois. Ohio was the only state where
1209-660: A whole and a statewide average of 2.279%. The area home to Egg Harbor City was settled by Europeans in 1614, when the Dutch vessel Fortuyn landed at the Mullica River . The first settlers named the area "Eyren Haven" after the large number of gull eggs in the area. In 1854, the Camden and Atlantic Railroad opened. On December 14, 1854, a group of prominent German Americans from Philadelphia , including William and Henry Schmoele and Philip Mathias Wolsieffer, incorporated
1302-1519: Is Dennis Levinson ( R , Northfield ), whose term of office ends December 31, 2027. Members of the Board of County Commissioners are: Ernest D. Coursey (D, District 1-- Atlantic City , Egg Harbor Township (part), Longport , Margate City , and Ventnor City ; 2025, Atlantic City), Chair Maureen Kern (R, District 2-- Egg Harbor Township (part), Linwood , Northfield , Somers Point and Pleasantville ; 2024, Somers Point), Andrew Parker III (R, District 3-- Egg Harbor Township (part) and Hamilton Township (part); 2026, Egg Harbor Township), Richard R. Dase (R, District 4, including Brigantine , Galloway Township , Egg Harbor Township (part), and Port Republic ; 2025, Galloway Township), Vice Chair James A. Bertino (R, District 5-- Buena , Buena Vista Township , Corbin City , Egg Harbor City , Estell Manor , Folsom , Hamilton Township (part), Hammonton , Mullica Township and Weymouth Township ; 2024, Hammonton), June Byrnes (R, At-Large; 2026, Linwood), Frank X. Balles (R, At-Large; Pleasantville, 2024) Amy L. Gatto (R, At-large; 2025, Hamilton Township) and John W. Risley (R, At-Large; 2026, Egg Harbor Township) Atlantic County's constitutional officers are: Clerk Joesph J. Giralo (R, 2026, Hammonton), Sheriff Joe O'Donoghue (R, 2026, Egg Harbor Township) and Surrogate James Curcio (R, 2025, Hammonton). As of March 23, 2011, there were
1395-626: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Egg Harbor City, New Jersey Egg Harbor City is a city in Atlantic County , in the U.S. state of New Jersey . The city, and all of Atlantic County, is part of the Atlantic City - Hammonton metropolitan statistical area , which in turn is included in the Philadelphia - Reading - Camden combined statistical area and
1488-547: Is elected to a four-year term of office. The City Council includes nine members, who are elected to three-year terms on a staggered basis in a three-year cycle, with three seats coming up for election each year. The mayor is the statutory head of the Police department and the city's Chief Executive Officer. The City Council makes local laws, sets an agenda pertaining to the direction that the governments programs and approves budgets for various programs. The City Administrator takes
1581-412: Is governed by a directly elected county executive and a nine-member Board of County Commissioners , responsible for legislation. The executive serves a four-year term and the commissioners are elected to staggered three-year terms, of which four are elected from the county on an at-large basis and five of the commissioners represent equally populated districts. As of 2024 , Atlantic County's Executive
1674-802: Is one of 56 South Jersey municipalities that are included within the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve , a protected natural area of unique ecology covering 1,100,000 acres (450,000 ha), that has been classified as a United States Biosphere Reserve and established by Congress in 1978 as the nation's first National Reserve. All of the city is included in the state-designated Pinelands Area, which includes portions of Atlantic County, along with areas in Burlington , Camden , Cape May , Cumberland , Gloucester and Ocean counties. The 2010 United States census counted 4,243 people, 1,593 households, and 1,075 families in
1767-403: Is remembered for this theme because Protestants feared that Catholic priests and bishops would control a large bloc of voters. In most places, the ideology and influence of the Know Nothing movement lasted only one or two years before it disintegrated due to weak and inexperienced local leaders, a lack of publicly proclaimed national leaders, and a deep split over the issue of slavery . In parts of
1860-573: Is the most significant highway passing through Egg Harbor City. Egg Harbor City also features the northern terminus of New Jersey Route 50 , which ends at an intersection with US 30 near the center of the city. Major county routes passing through the city include County Route 561 and County Route 563 . The closest limited access road is the Atlantic City Expressway which is two towns away in Hamilton Township while
1953-525: Is zoned to serve students from Egg Harbor City, Mullica Township, Port Republic and Washington Township, while students in portions of Galloway and Hamilton townships have the opportunity to attend Cedar Creek through the school of choice program or through attendance in magnet programs offered at Cedar Creek. Seats on the nine-member board are allocated based on the population of the constituent municipalities, with one seat assigned to Egg Harbor City. Township public school students are also eligible to attend
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#17327808253542046-804: The Dred Scott v. Sandford pro-slavery decision of the Supreme Court of the United States further galvanized opposition to slavery in the North, causing many former Know Nothings to join the Republicans. The remnants of the American Party largely joined the Constitutional Union Party in 1860 and they disappeared during the American Civil War . Anti-Catholicism was widespread in colonial America , but it played
2139-568: The 1856 presidential election , but he kept quiet about his membership in it, and he personally refrained from supporting the Know Nothing movement's activities and ideology . Fillmore received 21.5% of the popular vote in the 1856 presidential election, finishing behind the Democratic and Republican nominees. Henry Winter Davis , an active Know-Nothing, was elected on the American Party ticket to Congress from Maryland. He told Congress that "un-American" Irish Catholic immigrants were to blame for
2232-541: The 2000 United States census there were 4,545 people, 1,658 households, and 1,150 families residing in the city. The population density was 409.2 inhabitants per square mile (158.0/km ). There were 1,770 housing units at an average density of 159.4 per square mile (61.5/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 66.80% White , 14.19% African American , 0.37% Native American , 1.25% Asian , 0.09% Pacific Islander , 13.49% from other races , and 3.81% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 24.55% of
2325-597: The 2012 presidential election , Democrat Barack Obama received 1,121 votes here (61.0% vs. 57.9% countywide), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 674 votes (36.7% vs. 41.1%) and other candidates with 27 votes (1.5% vs. 0.9%), among the 1,838 ballots cast by the city's 2,724 registered voters, for a turnout of 67.5% (vs. 65.8% in Atlantic County). In the 2008 presidential election , Democrat Barack Obama received 1,166 votes here (60.0% vs. 56.5% countywide), ahead of Republican John McCain with 737 votes (38.0% vs. 41.6%) and other candidates with 21 votes (1.1% vs. 1.1%), among
2418-602: The American Party . Members of the movement were required to say "I know nothing" whenever they were asked about its specifics by outsiders, providing the group with its colloquial name. Supporters of the Know Nothing movement believed that an alleged " Romanist " conspiracy to subvert civil and religious liberty in the United States was being hatched by Catholics . Therefore, they sought to politically organize native-born Protestants in defense of their traditional religious and political values. The Know Nothing movement
2511-828: The Atlantic County Institute of Technology in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township or the Charter-Tech High School for the Performing Arts , located in Somers Point . The Pilgrim Academy is a private Christian school . Founded by Warren Allem in 1971, the school teaches children from kindergarten through 12th grade. The name is taken from John Bunyan 's allegorical novel The Pilgrim's Progress . The Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden formerly maintained
2604-529: The Delaware Valley . As of the 2020 United States census , the city's population was 4,396, an increase of 153 (+3.6%) from the 2010 census count of 4,243, which in turn reflected a decline of 302 (−6.6%) from the 4,545 counted in the 2000 census . The city had the seventh-highest property tax rate in New Jersey, with an equalized rate of 5.044% in 2020, compared to 2.560% in the county as
2697-663: The Garden State Parkway is accessible in neighboring Galloway Township. The Egg Harbor City station provides NJ Transit service on the Atlantic City Line , connecting 30th Street Station in Philadelphia and the Atlantic City Rail Terminal in Atlantic City . NJ Transit provides bus service to and from Atlantic City on the 554 route. The South Jersey Transportation Authority provides shuttle bus service connecting
2790-582: The National Center for Education Statistics ) are Charles L. Spragg School with 244 students in PreK to Grade 3 and Egg Harbor City Community School with 276 students in grades 4 to 8. Students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Cedar Creek High School , which is located in the northern section of Egg Harbor City and opened to students in September 2010. As of the 2021–22 school year,
2883-718: The United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker ( Newark , term ends 2027) and George Helmy ( Mountain Lakes , term ends 2024). For the 2024-2025 session , the 8th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the New Jersey Senate by Latham Tiver ( R , Southampton Township ) and in the General Assembly by Andrea Katz ( D , Chesterfield Township ) and Michael Torrissi (R, Hammonton ). Atlantic County
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2976-591: The Whig Party after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act left an opening for the emergence of a new major political party in opposition to the Democratic Party. The Know Nothing movement managed to elect congressman Nathaniel P. Banks of Massachusetts and several other individuals into office in the 1854 elections , and it subsequently coalesced into a new political party which was known as
3069-475: The second party system , brought about primarily by the demise of the Whig Party. The Whig Party, weakened for years by internal dissent and chronic factionalism, was nearly destroyed by the Kansas–Nebraska Act . Growing anti-party sentiment, fueled by anti-slavery sentiment as well as temperance and nativism, also contributed to the disintegration of the party system. The collapsing second party system gave
3162-459: The "Gloucester Farm and Town Association", which purchased approximately 38,000 acres of woodland north of the railroad to serve as a refuge for those being persecuted in the anti-immigrant violence known as the Know-Nothing movement . The corporation planned two cities: a four-square-mile city called "Pomona" closest to the railroad, and another city called "Gloucester" to the north. However,
3255-424: The 1,942 ballots cast by the city's 2,969 registered voters, for a turnout of 65.4% (vs. 68.1% in Atlantic County). In the 2004 presidential election , Democrat John Kerry received 975 votes here (54.0% vs. 52.0% countywide), ahead of Republican George W. Bush with 779 votes (43.1% vs. 46.2%) and other candidates with 21 votes (1.2% vs. 0.8%), among the 1,806 ballots cast by the city's 2,626 registered voters, for
3348-585: The 1855 fall elections the Know Nothings again swept New Hampshire against the Democrats and the small new Republican party. When the Know Nothing "American Party" collapsed in 1856 and merged with the Republicans, New Hampshire now had a two party system with the Republicans edging out the Democrats. The Know Nothings also dominated politics in Rhode Island, where in 1855 William W. Hoppin held
3441-495: The American Party. Particularly in the South , the American Party served as a vehicle for politicians who opposed the Democrats. Many of the American Party's members and supporters also hoped that it would stake out a middle ground between the pro-slavery positions of Democratic politicians and the radical anti-slavery positions of the rapidly emerging Republican Party . The American Party nominated former President Millard Fillmore in
3534-535: The City Council are Council President Joseph Anthony Ricci Jr. ( R , 2024), President Pro Tempore Donna M. Heist (D, 2023), Kasey Attianese (R, 2024; elected to serve an unexpired term), Steven J. Dash (R, 2025), Nanette LoBiondo Galloway (D, 2025), Kim Hesse (D, 2024), Ingrid Nieves-Clark (R, 2025), Karl Timbers (D, 2023) and Mason Wright Jr. (D, 2023). Kasey Attianese was elected in November 2022 to fill
3627-481: The Democrats and the emergence of the anti-slavery Republican party in the North. In the South as a whole, the American Party was strongest among former Unionist Whigs. States-rightist Whigs shunned it, enabling the Democrats to win most of the South. Whigs supported the American Party because of their desire to defeat the Democrats, their unionist sentiment, their anti-immigrant attitudes and the Know Nothing neutrality on
3720-521: The Egg Harbor City train station with Atlantic City International Airport and Stockton University , as well as other area locations. People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Egg Harbor City include: Know-Nothing movement The Know Nothings were a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s, officially known as the Native American Party before 1855, and afterwards simply
3813-696: The Know Nothing candidate Daniel Ullman came in third in a four-way race for governor by gathering 26% of the vote. After the 1854 elections, they exerted a large amount of political influence in Maine, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and California, but historians are unsure about the accuracy of this information due to the secrecy of the party, because all parties were in turmoil and the anti-slavery and prohibition issues overlapped with nativism in complex and confusing ways. They helped elect Stephen Palfrey Webb as mayor of San Francisco and they also helped elect J. Neely Johnson as governor of California. Nathaniel P. Banks
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3906-452: The Know Nothings a much larger pool of potential converts than was available to previous nativist organizations, allowing the Order to succeed where older nativist groups had failed. In San Francisco , a Know Nothing chapter was founded in 1854 to oppose Chinese immigration—members included a judge of the state supreme court, who ruled that no Chinese person could testify as a witness against
3999-588: The Optional Municipal Charter Law) under the Small Municipality Plan , which is available to communities with fewer than 12,000 residents at the time of adoption. The city is one of 15 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form of government. The governing body is comprised of the mayor and the City Council, with all elected at-large in partisan elections as part of the November general election. The mayor
4092-466: The South and integration into its society. Immigrants fears were unjustified, however, because the national debate over slavery and its expansion, not nativism or anti-Catholicism, was the major reason for Know-Nothing success in the South. The southerners who supported the Know-Nothings did so, for the most part, because they thought the Democrats who favored the expansion of slavery might break up
4185-419: The South, the party did not emphasize anti-Catholicism as frequently as it emphasized it in the North and it stressed a neutral position on slavery, but it became the main alternative to the dominant Democratic Party . The Know Nothings supplemented their xenophobic views with populist appeals. At the state level, the party was, in some cases, progressive in its stances on "issues of labor rights and
4278-690: The St. Nicholas School in Egg Harbor. It closed in 2007 with a private elementary school opening in its place. As of May 2010 , the city had a total of 50.09 miles (80.61 km) of roadways, of which 34.05 miles (54.80 km) were maintained by the municipality, 14.46 miles (23.27 km) by Atlantic County and 1.58 miles (2.54 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation . U.S. Route 30 (the White Horse Pike)
4371-495: The Union. In 1855, the American Party challenged the Democrats' dominance. In Alabama, the Know Nothings were a mix of former Whigs, malcontented Democrats and other political misfits; they favored state aid to build more railroads. In the fierce campaign, the Democrats argued that Know Nothings could not protect slavery from Northern abolitionists. The Know Nothing American Party disintegrated soon after losing in 1855. In Virginia,
4464-501: The United States in the period between 1830 and 1860 made religious differences between Catholics and Protestants a political issue. Violence occasionally erupted at the polls. Protestants alleged that Pope Pius IX had contributed to the failure of the liberal Revolutions of 1848 in Europe and they also alleged that he was an enemy of liberty, democracy and republicanism . One Boston minister described Catholicism as "the ally of tyranny,
4557-422: The Whig Party was strongest in high income districts, the Know Nothing electorate was strongest in the poor districts. They expelled the traditional upper-class, closed, political leadership, especially the lawyers and merchants. In their stead, they elected working-class men, farmers and a large number of teachers and ministers. Replacing the moneyed elite were men who seldom owned $ 10,000 in property. Nationally,
4650-476: The Whigs, plus 15% of Democrats and 24% of those who abstained in the previous election for governor the year before. In full control of the legislature, the Know Nothings enacted their entire agenda. According to Lex Renda, they battled traditionalism and promoted rapid modernization. They extended the waiting period for citizenship to slow down the growth of Irish power; they reformed the state courts. They expanded
4743-686: The anti-Catholic orator Lewis Charles Levin was elected Representative from Pennsylvania's 1st district. In the early 1850s, numerous secret orders grew up, of which the Order of United Americans and the Order of the Star Spangled Banner came to be the most important. They emerged in New York in the early 1850s as a secret order that quickly spread across the North, reaching non-Catholics, particularly those who were lower middle class or skilled workers. The name Know Nothing originated in
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#17327808253544836-406: The average family size was 3.20. In the city the population was spread out, with 28.3% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.9 males. The median income for a household in the city
4929-653: The city had a total area of 11.42 square miles (29.58 km ), including 10.85 square miles (28.10 km ) of land and 0.57 square miles (1.48 km ) of water (4.99%). Unincorporated communities , localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Clarks Landing, Gloucester Furnace and Gloucester Lake. The city borders the municipalities of Galloway Township and Mullica Township in Atlantic County; and Washington Township in Burlington County . The city
5022-460: The city. The population density was 388.1 per square mile (149.8/km ). There were 1,736 housing units at an average density of 158.8 per square mile (61.3/km ). The racial makeup was 62.95% (2,671) White , 17.94% (761) Black or African American , 0.38% (16) Native American , 2.22% (94) Asian , 0.09% (4) Pacific Islander , 12.28% (521) from other races , and 4.15% (176) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 26.28% (1,115) of
5115-601: The civil rights of Irish Catholic immigrants. After this, state courts lost the power to process applications for citizenship and public schools had to require compulsory daily reading of the Protestant Bible (which the nativists were sure would transform the Catholic children). The governor disbanded the Irish militias and replaced Irish holding state jobs with Protestants. However, Know Nothing lawmakers failed to reach
5208-412: The county). The Egg Harbor City School District is responsible for the education of public school children in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade . As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 529 students and 55.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.6:1. Schools in the district (with 2021–22 enrollment data from
5301-417: The county). In the 2009 gubernatorial election , Democrat Jon Corzine received 576 ballots cast (46.4% vs. 44.5% countywide), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 520 votes (41.9% vs. 47.7%), Independent Chris Daggett with 58 votes (4.7% vs. 4.8%) and other candidates with 27 votes (2.2% vs. 1.2%), among the 1,242 ballots cast by the city's 2,677 registered voters, yielding a 46.4% turnout (vs. 44.9% in
5394-472: The east-west streets were named for notable Germans, starting with Agassiz Avenue (current-day White Horse Pike ) to the south, and Zschokke Avenue to the north. The city was planned to include ample public green space; both New York Avenue and Baltimore Avenue were platted with wide medians to accommodate garden plats, Landing Creek would have been dammed to create an artificial lake called "Gloucester Lake", and Egg Harbor City Lake would have been made into
5487-460: The elected officials programs and sets policy and procedures in order to carry out the day-to-day operations of the municipality. The City Administrator also deals with federal, state, county and neighboring municipal officials to implement the community's needs. As of 2023 , the Mayor of Egg Harbor City is Democrat Lisa Jiampetti, whose four-year term of office ends on December 31, 2024. Members of
5580-410: The election by a landslide. In Washington, D.C., Know Nothing candidate John T. Towers defeated incumbent Mayor John Walker Maury , triggering opposition of such a high proportion that the Democrats, Whigs, and Freesoilers in the capital united as the "Anti-Know-Nothing Party". In New York, where James Harper had been elected mayor of New York City as an American Republican almost a decade before,
5673-425: The first five years of the 1850s reached a level five times greater than a decade earlier. Most of the new arrivals were poor Catholic peasants or laborers from Ireland and Germany who crowded the tenements of large cities. Crime and welfare costs soared. Cincinnati's crime rate, for example, tripled between 1846 and 1853 and its murder rate increased sevenfold. Boston's expenditures for poor relief rose threefold during
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#17327808253545766-489: The governorship and five out of every seven votes went to the party, which dominated the Rhode Island legislature. Local newspapers such as The Providence Journal fueled anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiment. In the Southern United States, the American Party was composed chiefly of ex-Whigs looking for a vehicle to fight the dominant Democratic Party and worried about both the pro-slavery extremism of
5859-648: The high school had an enrollment of 962 students and 77.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.4:1. The school is one of three high schools operated as part of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District , which also includes the constituent municipalities of Egg Harbor City, Galloway Township , Hamilton Township and Mullica Township , and participates in sending/receiving relationships with Port Republic and Washington Township (Burlington County) . Cedar Creek High School
5952-451: The importation of supposedly subversive government documents and academic books from Europe. It upgraded the legal status of wives, giving them more property rights and more rights in divorce courts. It passed harsh penalties on speakeasies, gambling houses and bordellos. It passed prohibition legislation with penalties that were so stiff—such as six months in prison for serving one glass of beer—that juries refused to convict defendants. Many of
6045-416: The intrusion of religious influence on the political arena. These influences have brought vast multitudes of foreign-born citizens to the polls, ignorant of American interests, without American feelings, influenced by foreign sympathies, to vote on American affairs; and those votes have, in point of fact, accomplished the present result. The party entered a period of rapid decline after Fillmore's loss. In 1857
6138-416: The need for more government spending" and furnished "support for an expansion of the rights of women , the regulation of industry, and support of measures which were designed to improve the status of working people." It was a forerunner of the temperance movement in the United States . The Know Nothing movement briefly emerged as a major political party in the form of the American Party. The collapse of
6231-468: The new party leadership showed incomes, occupation, and social status that were about average. Few were wealthy, according to detailed historical studies of once-secret membership rosters. Fewer than 10% were unskilled workers who might come in direct competition with Irish laborers. They enlisted few farmers, but on the other hand they included many merchants and factory owners. The party's voters were by no means all native-born Americans, for it won more than
6324-406: The number and power of banks; they strengthened corporations; they defeated a proposed 10-hour workday law. They reformed the tax system; increased state spending on public schools; set up a system to build high schools; prohibited the sale of liquor; and they denounced the expansion of slavery in the western territories. The Whigs and Free Soil parties both collapsed in New Hampshire in 1854–55. In
6417-471: The opponent of material prosperity, the foe of thrift, the enemy of the railroad, the caucus, and the school". These fears encouraged conspiracy theories regarding papal intentions of subjugating the United States through a continuing influx of Catholics controlled by Irish bishops obedient to and personally selected by the Pope. In 1849, an oath-bound secret society , the Order of the Star Spangled Banner ,
6510-567: The party gained strength in 1855. Their Ohio success seems to have come from winning over immigrants, especially German-American Lutherans and Scots-Irish Presbyterians, both hostile to Catholicism. In Alabama, Know Nothings were a mix of former Whigs, discontented Democrats and other political outsiders who favored state aid to build more railroads. Virginia attracted national attention in its tempestuous 1855 gubernatorial election. Democrat Henry Alexander Wise won by convincing state voters that Know Nothings were in bed with Northern abolitionists. With
6603-513: The party supported a Jewish candidate for governor, Daniel Ullman , in 1854. In the spring of 1854, the Know Nothings carried Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, and other New England cities. They swept the state of Massachusetts in the fall 1854 elections, their biggest victory. The Whig candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, editor Robert T. Conrad , was soon revealed as a Know Nothing as he promised to crack down on crime, close saloons on Sundays and only appoint native-born Americans to office—he won
6696-512: The party's success in sweeping to almost complete control of the Massachusetts legislature after its 1854 landslide victory. He finds the new party was populist and highly democratic, hostile to wealth, elites and to expertise, and deeply suspicious of outsiders, especially Catholics. The new party's voters were concentrated in the rapidly growing industrial towns, where Yankee workers faced direct competition with new Irish immigrants. Whereas
6789-433: The population were under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 26.9% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36.4 years. For every 100 females, the population had 96.9 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 93.9 males. The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income
6882-411: The population. There were 1,658 households, out of which 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.7% were married couples living together, 20.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.6% were non-families. 24.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and
6975-418: The population. Of the 1,593 households, 30.2% had children under the age of 18; 39.0% were married couples living together; 21.3% had a female householder with no husband present and 32.5% were non-families. Of all households, 25.3% were made up of individuals and 8.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.13. 24.9% of
7068-456: The recent election of Democrat James Buchanan as president, stating: The recent election has developed in an aggravated form every evil against which the American party protested. Foreign allies have decided the government of the country – men naturalized in thousands on the eve of the election. Again in the fierce struggle for supremacy, men have forgotten the ban which the Republic puts on
7161-480: The reforms were quite expensive; state spending rose 45% on top of a 50% hike in annual taxes on cities and towns. This extravagance angered the taxpayers, and few Know Nothings were reelected. These successes at enacting reform legislation came at the expense of the traditional nativist priorities of the party, causing some national Know Nothing leaders, like Samuel Morse, to question the Massachusetts party's aims. The Massachusetts Know Nothings did advance attacks on
7254-600: The same period. Unlike later antisemitic nativist groups in the U.S. , and despite their zealous xenophobia and religious bigotry, the Know Nothings did not focus their ire on Jews or Judaism. Prioritizing a zealous disdain for Irish and German Catholic immigrants, the Know Nothing Party "had nothing to say about Jews", according to historian Hasia Diner , reportedly because its backers believed Jews, unlike Catholics, did not allow "their religious feelings to interfere with their political views." In New York ,
7347-513: The seat expiring in December 2024 that became vacant following the death of Robin L. Sefton in May 2022. Egg Harbor City is located in the 2nd Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 8th state legislative district. For the 118th United States Congress , New Jersey's 2nd congressional district is represented by Jeff Van Drew ( R , Dennis Township ). New Jersey is represented in
7440-609: The semi-secret organization of the party. When a member of the party was asked about his activities, he was supposed to say, "I know nothing." Outsiders derisively called the party's members "Know Nothings", and the name stuck. In 1855, the Know Nothings first entered politics under the American Party label. Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other The immigration of large numbers of Irish and German Catholics to
7533-617: The slavery issue. David T. Gleeson notes that many Irish Catholics in the South feared that the arrival of the Know-Nothing movement portended a serious threat. He argues: The southern Irish, who had seen the dangers of Protestant bigotry in Ireland, had the distinct feeling that the Know-Nothings were an American manifestation of that phenomenon. Every migrant, no matter how settled or prosperous, also worried that this virulent strain of nativism threatened his or her hard-earned gains in
7626-435: The status of working people". It passed legislation to regulate railroads, insurance companies and public utilities. It funded free textbooks for the public schools and raised the appropriations for local libraries and for the school for the blind. Purification of Massachusetts against divisive social evils was a high priority. The legislature set up the state's first reform school for juvenile delinquents while trying to block
7719-492: The twin city scheme was dropped in favor of one seven-mile-long metropolis called "Egg Harbor City". The development's layout contained an urban "city core" containing 100x150-foot lots bounded by New York Avenue to the west and Baltimore Avenue to the east, while the remainder of the land was divided into separate 20-acre farm parcels. The corporation issued stocks at $ 300 per share; with each share, stockholders would acquire one residential building lot and one farm parcel. The city
7812-501: The two-thirds majority needed to pass a state constitutional amendment to restrict voting and office holding to men who had resided in Massachusetts for at least 21 years. The legislature then called on Congress to raise the requirement for naturalization from five years to 21 years, but Congress never acted. The most dramatic move by the Know Nothing legislature was to appoint an investigating committee designed to prove widespread sexual immorality underway in Catholic convents. The press had
7905-524: The victory by Wise, the movement began to collapse in the South. Know Nothings scored victories in Northern state elections in 1854, winning control of the legislature in Massachusetts and polling 40% of the vote in Pennsylvania. Although most of the new immigrants lived in the North, resentment and anger against them was national and the American Party initially polled well in the South, attracting
7998-431: The votes of many former southern Whigs. The party name gained wide, but brief, popularity: Know Nothing candy, tea, and toothpicks appeared, and the name was given to stagecoaches, buses, and ships. In Trescott , Maine, a shipowner dubbed his new 700-ton freighter Know-Nothing. The party was occasionally referred to, contemporaneously, in a slightly pejorative shortening, "Knism". Historian John Mulkern has examined
8091-476: Was $ 32,956, and the median income for a family was $ 40,040. Males had a median income of $ 27,978 versus $ 23,560 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 15,151. About 11.7% of families and 13.1% of the population were below the poverty line , including 13.5% of those under age 18 and 15.5% of those age 65 or over. The City of Egg Harbor City is governed by the Faulkner Act (formally known as
8184-427: Was $ 52,893 (with a margin of error of +/− $ 8,582) and the median family income was $ 67,654 (+/− $ 6,555). Males had a median income of $ 35,182 (+/− $ 7,553) versus $ 33,994 (+/− $ 2,214) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $ 22,294 (+/− $ 3,702). About 11.3% of families and 20.9% of the population were below the poverty line , including 36.2% of those under age 18 and 12.7% of those age 65 or over. As of
8277-492: Was elected to Congress as a Know Nothing candidate, but after a few months he aligned with Republicans. A coalition of Know Nothings, Republicans and other members of Congress opposed to the Democratic Party elected Banks to the position of Speaker of the House . The results of the 1854 elections were so favorable to the Know Nothings, up to then an informal movement with no centralized organization, that they formed officially as
8370-528: Was founded by Charles B. Allen in New York City. At its inception, the Order of the Star Spangled Banner only had about 36 members. Fear of Catholic immigration caused some Protestants to become dissatisfied with the Democratic Party , whose leaders included Catholics of Irish descent in many cities. Activists formed secret groups, coordinating their votes and throwing their weight behind candidates who were sympathetic to their cause: Immigration during
8463-495: Was marketed heavily in cities containing large German American populations, including Baltimore , Buffalo , Cleveland , Milwaukee , and St. Louis . The land was divided and plotted from the railroad north to the Mullica River, west ending at Hanover Avenue, and the easternmost land being the home of the present-day Stockton University . The north-south streets were named for cities with large German populations, while
8556-404: Was not the only violent riot between Know Nothings and Catholics in 1855. In Baltimore , the mayoral elections of 1856, 1857, and 1858 were all marred by violence and well-founded accusations of ballot-rigging. In the coastal town of Ellsworth, Maine , in 1854, Know Nothings were associated with the tarring and feathering of a Catholic priest, Jesuit Johannes Bapst . They also burned down
8649-608: Was reincorporated on February 13, 1868. The city's growth was slowed due to an economic crisis in 1857, and then further during the Civil War . Though the city did not grow to the size as originally proposed, it grew in population steadily in the 1870s, and remained a virtual island of German language and culture in South Jersey for more than 50 years. According to the United States Census Bureau ,
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