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52 relations: Alfred A. Knopf, American Republican Party (1843), Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Irish sentiment, Arson, Assault, Atlantic Guards, B'hoy and g'hal, Bowery, Bowery B'hoy, Bowery Theatre, Butcher, Charley Skedaddle, Chichesters, Cigar, Dead Rabbits, Dead Rabbits riot, Five Points, Manhattan, Gang, Gangs of New York, Hairstyle, Herbert Asbury, Infobase Publishing, John and Patricia Beatty, Knife fight, Manhattan, Martin Scorsese, Mechanic, Michael Walsh (New York), Murder, Nativism (politics), New York City, New York City draft riots, New York City Police Department, Order of the Star Spangled Banner, Plug Uglies, Riot, Roach Guards, Robbery, Shirt Tails, Street fighting, Tammany Hall, Tenement, The Bowery Boys, The Bowery Boys: New York City History, Top hat, Tradesman, Union (American Civil War), Union Army, Volunteer fire department, ..., Walt Whitman, William Poole. Expand index (2 more) »
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.
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American Republican Party (1843)
The American Republican Party was a minor nativist political organization that was launched in New York in June 1843, largely as a protest against immigrant voters and officeholders.
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Anti-Catholicism
Anti-Catholicism is hostility towards Catholics or opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy and its adherents.
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Anti-Irish sentiment
Anti-Irish sentiment (or Hibernophobia) may refer to or include oppression, bigotry, persecution, discrimination, hatred or fear of Irish people as an ethnic group or nation, whether directed against Ireland in general or against Irish emigrants and their descendants in the Irish diaspora.
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Arson
Arson is a crime of intentionally, deliberately and maliciously setting fire to buildings, wildland areas, abandoned homes, vehicles or other property with the intent to cause damage or enjoy the act.
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Assault
An assault is the act of inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such an action.
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Atlantic Guards
The Atlantic Guards were a 19th-century American street gang active in New York City from the 1840s to the 1860s.
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B'hoy and g'hal
B'hoy and g'hal (meant to evoke an Irish pronunciation of boy and gal, respectively) were the prevailing slang words used to describe the young men and women of the rough-and-tumble working class culture of Lower Manhattan in the late 1840s and into the period of the American Civil War.
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Bowery
The Bowery is a street and neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Bowery B'hoy
The New Yorker vernacular pronunciation of Bowery Boys was Bowery B’hoys referring to working-class single men living mostly along the Bowery in New York City in the early 19th century.
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Bowery Theatre
The Bowery Theatre was a playhouse on the Bowery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
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Butcher
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks.
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Charley Skedaddle
Charley Skedaddle is an award-winning children's fiction book by Patricia Beatty.
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Chichesters
The Chichesters also known as the Chichester Gang along with the Forty Thieves, Shirt Tails, and Kerryonians, were one of the oldest early 19th century Irish Five Points street gang during the mid 19th century in New York City.
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Cigar
A cigar is a rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco leaves made to be smoked.
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Dead Rabbits
The Dead Rabbits was the name of an Irish American criminal street gang in Lower Manhattan in the 1850s.
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Dead Rabbits riot
The Dead Rabbits riot was a two-day civil disturbance in New York City resulting from what was originally a small-scale street fight between members of the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys into a citywide gang war which occurred July 4–5, 1857.
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Five Points, Manhattan
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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Gang
A gang is a group of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior.
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Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic period drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City.
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Hairstyle
A hairstyle, hairdo, or haircut refers to the styling of hair, usually on the human scalp.
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Herbert Asbury
Herbert Asbury (September 1, 1889 – February 24, 1963) was an American journalist and writer best known for his books detailing crime during the 19th and early-20th centuries, such as Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld, The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld and The Gangs of New York.
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Infobase Publishing
Infobase Publishing is an American publisher of reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.
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John and Patricia Beatty
John and Patricia Beatty were married American writers, an academic historian and a children's librarian.
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Knife fight
A knife fight is a violent physical confrontation between two or more combatants in which one or more participants is armed with a knife.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.
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Mechanic
A mechanic is a tradesman, craftsman, or technician who uses tools to build or repair machinery.
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Michael Walsh (New York)
Michael Walsh (May 4, 1810 – March 17, 1859) was a United States Representative from New York.
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Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.
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Nativism (politics)
Nativism is the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York City draft riots
The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
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New York City Police Department
The City of New York Police Department, commonly known as the NYPD, is the primary law enforcement and investigation agency within the five boroughs of New York City.
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Order of the Star Spangled Banner
The Order of the Star Spangled Banner (OSSB) was an oath-bound secret society in New York City.
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Plug Uglies
The Plug Uglies were an American Nativist criminal street gang, sometimes referred to loosely as a political club, that operated in the west side of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1854 to 1865.
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Riot
A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property or people.
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Roach Guards
The Roach Guards were an Irish criminal gang in Five Points neighborhood of New York City the mid-19th century.
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Robbery
Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear.
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Shirt Tails
The Shirt Tails were a mid-19th century street gang based in the Five Points slum in Manhattan, New York, United States, who wore their shirts on the outside of their pants as 19th century Chinese laborers would dress as a form of insignia and as a sign of gang group affiliation.
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Street fighting
Street fighting is hand-to-hand combat in public places, between individuals or groups of people.
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Tammany Hall
Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St.
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Tenement
A tenement is a multi-occupancy building of any sort.
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The Bowery Boys
The Bowery Boys were fictional New York City characters, portrayed by a company of New York actors, who were the subject of feature films released by Monogram Pictures from 1946 through 1958.
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The Bowery Boys: New York City History
The Bowery Boys: New York City History is a travel and history podcast that was launched in June 2007 by Thomas Meyers and Gregory Young.
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Top hat
A top hat, beaver hat, high hat, silk hat, cylinder hat, chimney pot hat or stove pipe hat, sometimes also known by the nickname "topper", is a tall, flat-crowned, broad-brimmed hat, worn by men from the latter part of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century.
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Tradesman
A tradesman, tradesperson, tradie or skilled tradesman refers to a worker who specializes in a particular occupation that requires work experience, on-the-job training, and often formal vocational education, but often not a bachelor's degree.
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Union (American Civil War)
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.
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Union Army
During the American Civil War, the Union Army referred to the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states.
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Volunteer fire department
A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department composed of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction.
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Walt Whitman
Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.
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William Poole
William Poole (July 24, 1821 – March 8, 1855), also known as Bill the Butcher, was a founder of the street gang the Bowery Boys and a leader of the Know Nothing political movement in mid-19th century New York City.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowery_Boys
