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.[1][2]

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  1. ^ Anbinder, Tyler (1992). Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. Oxford University Press. p. 20.
  2. ^ "Library of Congress".