After the end of the Civil War members of Congress tried to get rid of the power that the confederate states had. Congress wanted to help the past slaves since the southern states would not.

A law was then passed called the Freeman’s Bureau. It was established on March 3, 1865. The plan was to improve the former slave’s lives. It helped the slaves find jobs and homes. The Freeman’s Bureau spent around $17,000,000 to build houses, hospitals, and schools for the slaves. A few years later Congress tried to give more power to the Freeman’s Bureau but President Andrew Johnson vetoed it in February. Johnson also vetoed the Civil Rights Bill. In the election of 1866 there became more Radical Republicans in Congress. In the following year Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act. The South was divided into military districts. Elections were held in each state with black males having the right to vote. It also offered readmission to the Sout

h after they had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. Johnson vetoed the bill but Congress passed it again the same day.

Even today there are still supporters of the KKK but they will never reach the numbers and power that they had in the 1920’s as long as people are educated to the positive side of all races. We need to be taught the value of individuals and made to understand that every human being has worth.

In November 1922 Hiram Evans a dentist from Texas became the new Grand Wizard. In the 1920’s the Klan grew to around 4,000,000 members with many Klan’s members holding political positions, in states like Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Maine. Even when a Klan’s member was arrested they were unlikely to become convicted in the Southern juries because of the power of the Klan.

The first part of the Ku Klux Klan was established in Tennessee in May 1866. In 1867 another part was established in Nashville. Most of the Ku Klux Klan had fought in the Confederate Army. Nathan Forrest was the first Grand Wizard or head leader of the KKK. He was an ex-cavalry leader in the Civil War.

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