Cincinnati riots of 1855

Cincinnati riots of 1855
Cincinnati riots of 1855
	View of Cincinnati, during the Nativist Riots of April 1855
Date	April 1855
Location	Cincinnati, Ohio
Caused by	Anti-Catholicism; Nativism; Instability (political and economic)
Resulted in	The election violence and failure of the nativists to form an alliance with anti-slavery activists discredited the party in the eyes of many citizens and led to the demise of the movement. The riots meant the end of the Know Nothing party in Cincinnati
Parties
Nativists Know-Nothing Party; Anglo-American rioters;	German-American residents Militias;

The Cincinnati Riots of 1855 were clashes between "nativists" and German-Americans. The nativists supported J. D. Taylor, the mayoral candidate for the anti-immigrant American Party, also known as the Know-Nothing Party. During the riots, German-Americans erected barricades in the streets leading into their Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, and fired a cannon over the heads of a mob of nativists attacking them.^[2]

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