The original concept of the KKK was to be secret Fraternity Club. From 1867 onward, African-American participation in public life in the South became one of the most radical aspects of Reconstruction, as blacks won election to southern state governments and even to the U.S. Congress (Klu Klux Klan). After 1870, Republican state governments in the South turned to Congress for help, resulting in the passage of three Enforcement Acts, the strongest of which was the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. The KKK later became a more violent and hostile to black Americans. The Klan was targeting black political leaders and other blacks due the Reconstruction.
The Invisible Empire There are many events in history that still pertain to today’s society that countries are not proud of the Ku Klux Klan is an abomination of the USA. The organization of the Ku Klux Klan had a biased motivation, devastating results, and a horrible yet helpful impact. “The first main object of the Ku Klux Klan was to undermine the power of the Blacks. Any successful Black businessmen where attacked and any attempt to form black protection groups were quickly dealt with. The first Branch of Ku Klux Klan was established in Pulaski, Tennessee, in May, 1866” (spartacus educational”1).
Northern Democrats had a convention in Baltimore and nominated Stephen Douglas with a popular sovereignty position. Southern Democrats had their own Baltimore convention and nominated John C. Breckinridge with a pro-slavery position. The Know-Nothings nominated John Bell of Tennessee. They called themselves the Constitutional Union Party, and tried to mend fences by offering as their platform, simply, the Constitution. A Rail-Splitter Splits the Union The Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln, passing up on William "Higher Law" Seward who had too many enemies.
For white Southerners, keeping blacks away from the ballot box was crucial. Blacks were a large percent of the population and especially in the deep South, a black voting block could change the power structure. The vote was the key to official power and the perquisites of power. A Voter Education Project was begun in 1962 and met serious and even violent resistance. A black who tried to register in Mississippi was shot at by a white.
This was shown by his threats to bring the military into South Carolina after the nullification on his Tariff of Abomination (Document F). Jackson was elected in 1832 against the President running for second term at the time, John Quincy Adams, because of his emotionalization towards the issues at stake during the time of the campaign. Through his campaign style, Jackson brought forth suffrage of the illiterate. Jackson managed to easily show through his supporters a well-defined social hierarchy. His supporters were all for themselves, and against the upper class and intellectuals (these supporters consisted
Just like the Ku-Klux-Klansmen and other racist people wanted him to. (Doc. A, C) In essence both North and South played big parts of killing the Reconstruction era. After the Civil War, the North with neglect, racists, corruption, and dangerous murdering Ku-Klux-Klansmen (Doc. A, C).
Many, many influential people turned on President Polk, from authors, such as Henry David Thoreau, who ended up imprisoned because he refused to pay taxes to support an unjust war, to Representative Abraham Lincoln, who turned against Pol by saying, he was “bewildered, confounded and miserably perplexed.” Some accused Southern Democrats of spreading slavery. Frederick Douglass, a famous abolitionist, said the war was “disgraceful.” In the end, the Mexican War did far more harm than good, especially in sectional issues at this time in the history of the United
In the name of preserving law and order in a white-dominated society, Klansmen punished newly freed blacks for a variety of reasons, including behaving in an "impudent" manner toward whites. They whipped the teachers of freedmen's schools and burnt their schoolhouses. But first and foremost, the Klan sought to do away with Republican influence in the South by terrorizing and murdering its party leaders and all those who voted for it…in outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats formed organizations that violently intimidated blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power...” It was all about change, evolving and becoming better then what the country was about, at that time. The founders of the KKK were stubborn to change; they had the mentality of supremacy, and tried by any means necessary to dominate others and deter the changes around
Despite the president's use of the armed forces to begin the desegregation process (or perhaps because of it), there was a tremendously negative response in the South to the Brown ruling. Initially, southerners adopted a policy of "massive resistance," and southern members of Congress argued that this was an issue for the states to decide and not the federal government. The problem was that the racial hatred and violence was still a prevalent part of American life. For example, at 2 A.M. on August 28, 1955, two white men broke into a cabin in Money, Mississippi, and abducted 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was visiting from Chicago. The white men kidnapped him because they believed he was flirting with a white woman.
Likewise an illustration of a decline in social morality was the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. Taking advantage of the fear of communism and anti-immigrants attitudes, the Ku Klux Klan used them as excuses to oppose people of other races and religions by attacking and lynching people that were not white, including the Roman Catholics, Jews, African American, and foreign-born people. Surprisingly, by 1924 the organization memberships, mostly white male persons and native-born gentile citizens, reached a huge number of 4.5 million. Fortunately, KKK’s criminal activities later led to a decrease of its power in