Ku Klux Klan

KKK

Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate soldiers opposed to Reconstruction after the Civil War.

Nativism

a policy that favors the natives instead of immigrants

¨Decade¨

a strategy created by the KKK in which every member of the Klan was responsible for recruiting ten people to vote for Klan candidates in elections

Freedom

absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government

LeeRoy Percy

convinced the people to support a resolution to condemn the Klan

Immigration

the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country for a variety of reasons

White supremacy

the belief that white people are superior to those of all other races, especially the black race, and should therefore dominate society

African Americans, Jews, Catholics, foreigners

the groups that the KKK targeted

Racial purity

the idea that one's race is superior and has the right to control others

Industrialization

the process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods.

Urbanization

the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban

prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior

Racism

"Colonel" William Joseph Simmons

Revived the KKK after seeing D. W. Griffith's film Birth of A Nation, which portrayed the Klansmen as great heroes