... pillowcases on their heads. In the beginning, the men wanted to do nothing more than play pranks on people. However, the pranks soon turned violent and the word spread quickly across the South. Suddenly everyone, including their new leader, wanted to be involved in such a daring and exciting organization. The "Grand Wizard", as Nathan Bedford Forrest was deemed, quickly took over ... the lack of interest killed the organization in 1877. It would be twenty-three years before the KKK tried to rebuild. With the help of a Methodist preacher named "Colonel" William Joseph Simmons the KKK slo...

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... . Most members were in the Midwest n south. They set up cooperative stores, grain elevators, warehouses, insurance companies, n farm machinery factories. Barbed wire: An invention that cut across the trails and divided up the big ranches. Joseph Glidden invented. His factory was turning out 600 miles of wire every day, n farmers were buying it faster than it could be produced. Dawes Act:1887 ... ...

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