Order of the Star Spangled Banner

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The Order of the Star Spangled Banner was an oath-bound secret society in New York City. It was created in 1849 by Charles Allen to protest the rise of Irish Catholic and German immigration into the United States.

In order to join the Order, a man had to be at least twenty-one years old, a Protestant, and willing to obey the Order's dictates without question. Most notably members were Nativists, citizens that were opposed to all immigration. Members invariably responded to questions about the OSSB by claiming that they "knew nothing." This practice caused newspaper editor Horace Greeley to label them "Know-Nothings." The OSSB would eventually form the nucleus of the nativist American Party.

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