Simmons in Stone Mountain, Georgia, making a huge “cultural civil war” mostly in the 1920s. After World War I the Klan adapted to disliking Jews, Roman Catholics, homosexuals, and different groups of immigrants as well. Klan saw themselves as defenders of old American order from foreigners, modernism, foreign religion and culture. Klansmen as well as women saw them defenders of family values. In November 1922 Hiram Wesley Evans became the leader.
The KKK quickly adopted violent methods. The increase in murders finally resulted in a backlash among Southern elites who viewed the Klan's excesses as an excuse for federal troops to continue occupation. The organization declined from 1868 to 1870 and was destroyed by President Ulysses S. Grant's prosecution and enforcement under the Civil Rights Act of 1871. In 1915, the second Klan was founded, it preached racism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Communism, nativism, and anti-Semitism. Some local groups took part in lynchings, attacks on private houses and public property, and other violent activities.
In “Fighting That Old Devil Rumor” by Sandra Salmans, Procter and Gamble was accused of being a company of devil worshippers because of their logo. Several Christians boycotted Procter and Gamble, and the company had to file a lawsuit against many people for starting rumors that were damaging them. The logo actually caused Procter and Gamble to do everything necessary to prove that the rumors were untrue. They even contacted the media to prove themselves. The Procter and Gamble logo was rumored to be the mark of the devil.
At Appomattox, where General Robert E. Lee surrendered, Lincoln gave a speech about how he would give blacks freedom and the right to vote. Those last few days of the war made Booth become a mad and wicked person, and a few days later, Lincoln would be shot (9). The Biography of Mary Surratt, Lincoln Assassination Conspirator, tells about Mary Surratt, a married, Catholic woman convicted of treason, conspiracy, plotting, and murder of our president. Her family had a farm, general store, gristmill, tavern, and a post office. The Surratt family was a Confederate sympathizer and therefore, welcomed other Confederate sympathizers.
The people of Salem lived in fear of the devil. Paranoia and fear emerged vigorously when talk of witchcraft spread. With such talk of the devil came accusations. People began accusing their neighbors in order to save themselves. “This predilection for minding other people’s business was time-honored among the people of Salem, and it undoubtedly created many of the suspicions which were to feed the coming madness (Miller 4).” * * Hughes 3 * In The Crucible, there are many factors that contribute to the fall of Salem, Massachusetts.
Student Name Professor Name ENG 106 WB 29 Jan. 2013 “2b or Not 2b” In the article “2b or Not 2b,” David Crystal discusses how others such as John Humphry argue that texters are “…vandals who are doing out language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbors 800 years ago. They are destroying it” (Crystal 335). Crystal also argues that when printing came about it people thought of it as the work of the devil. People believed that printing would put false opinions into people’s minds. When other inventions came about, such as the telegraph, telephone, and broadcasting it scared people and they felt that they would have negative consequences for the English language.
The first immigrants didn’t like the new comers. The new comers had cultural and economic threats against them and brought in a variety of different religion. Due to immigration, this created the Klu Klux Klan, also known as the KKK. The KKK practiced systematic terror against blacks, Jews, Catholics, and foreigners. Their goal was to create segregation and stop immigration
These terms appeared frequently and with high intensity, shaping a negative image of Malcolm X in the media. After Malcolm returned from Mecca, he announced that he no longer indicted the entire white race as racists and devils, and yet he was still connected with black supremacy. Other terms that cluster around extremist and appear in relation to Black Muslims and Malcolm X are enemy, confrontation, and bitter. These labels have implications of violence. Violence from a minority group against the white society is extremely disturbing to that population.
The act made any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine. This was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850. Another key factor to the start of the Civil War was the publishing of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Once Lincoln greeted Harriet Stowe as, “so you’re the little women who started the civil war”. Many people that read “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” became abolitionist and helped fight against slavery.
From the 1530's this was punishable by getting whipped and in the 1540's by getting hung. Heresy: heresy was among the many crimes that resulted in death. To go against the king was not only a crime but a sin. It was going against 'god'. Theft: people would not only steal money and food to stay alive but also gold and riches- people used to pretend to be simple entertainers and such however it was actually a scam- while they entertained rich folk their parter in crime would steal expensive gold, silver and other metal items from the household they could melt down before selling to a blacksmith.