Ku+Klux+Klan

Ku Klux Klan   Who?
 * 6 Confederate men after The Civil War
 * James Roesch, Ron Edwards, and Jeff Berry
 * Unhappy post Civil War Confederates
 * Eventually half million members
 * Terrorists

[|﻿What?] Where? When? **How?** **Effects on Reconstruction:**
 * Protested the rights of freed African Americans
 * Slaughtered, beat, and raped all who supported the rights of African Americans
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #110d0d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Spread terror between newly freed slaves and their supporters
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #110d0d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Marched to spread message
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #110d0d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Worked to make sure their advantages as whites were not taken away by the freedom of African Americans
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #110d0d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Didn't agree with new laws giving rights to Black because they didn't want to be part of their society
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #110d0d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Wanted to restore white rule
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #110d0d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Founded in Pulaski Tennes﻿see
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #110d0d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Started in south and today is all over the USA
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Started in 1866**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Still alive today**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Went against the reformation ideas by trying to restore the south to Pre Civil War times**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Organization in south trying to protect themselves**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Lead to uprising tentions between Government and KKK**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Had rituals where they burned the cross**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Hurt it by trying to go back to ways that were fought to get rid of during the Civil War
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">They terrorised African American and thode who stood up for them, preventing the KKK from losing their advantages of being white
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Enabled southern states to reject the republican state government impossed by congress

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> . Ed. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. Vol. 2. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. p562-567.

. Sonia Benson, Daniel E. Brannen, Jr., and Rebecca Valentine. Ed. Lawrence W. Baker and Sarah Hermsen. Vol. 5. Detroit: UXL, 2009. p882-884. **//[|Extremist Groups: Information for Students]//**. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p444-451.