Our Torn Flag
This immigrant groupâs protests of a July 12, 1871 parade led to riots in which they stormed another immigrant groupâs headquarters at Lamartine Hall. A bloody riot against this immigrant group prompted James W. Porter to write the song âSee Our Torn Flag Still Waving.â That riot, which began after a rumor spread that this group was trying to remove Bibles from public schools, engulfed the Southwark and Kensington neighborhoods of an east-coast city, and was only quelled when mayor John Morin Scott allowed George Cadawalader to bring in the state militia. This group, which was the target of the Bloody Monday riots in Louisville, was targeted by âOrangemenâ in the 1871 Orange Riots in New York. The 1844 Philadelphia Nativist Riots also targeted this immigrant group, which, along with Germans, was a target of ire for the Order of the Star Spangled Banner that became the Know Nothing Party. For 10 points, name this immigrant group consisting of papists who fled a potato famine.
This immigrant groupâs protests of a July 12, 1871 parade led to riots in which they stormed another immigrant groupâs headquarters at Lamartine Hall.
Irish Catholics [prompt on âIrishâ or â(Roman) Catholicsâ]