The Ku Klux Klan was one of America's oldest and most feared groups. The Ku Klux Klan was started as an underground terrorist group against the civil rights movement that freed the slaves after the Civil War. Most of the Ku Klux Klan was made up of past confederate soldiers.
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 South after they had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. Johnson vetoed the bill but Congress passed it again the same day.
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.
The KKK as they were known, wore masks and white cardboard hats. They also wore white sheets over themselves so no one would recognize them. They were supposed to symbolize the ghosts of the Confederacy coming back from the dead. The riders would muffle their horse's feet and drape white sheets over them.
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The name Ku Klux Klan comes from the Greek word kuklos, meaning circle, because in it is contained some of the unique characteristics of the White (or Aryan) race. In Tennessee,1865, The South had just lost the Civil War. Sadness was around everyone. Six young veterans, without money and needed som...
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