If you take a look at America’s history you will see a pattern of hate against non-whites such as African Americans and immigrants from other countries along with non-Anglicans such as Jews and Catholics. Each of these groups were all hated because they caused a breach in the goal of getting America to be 100% American. People from the 1800s were not very open to accepting other people’s beliefs. The Ku Klux Klan was a hate group that was filled with terrorists. During the time that the Klan was started, their acts were not known as terrorism, but by today’s standards they are a terrorists group. Terrorism defined by the Central Intelligence is: “means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by
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This hate group is partially responsible for the stereotyping and discrimination that occurs now towards black people today. The discrimination isn’t nearly as bad as it was in the 1920s, but it is still present.When people hear the word discrimination now their minds will probably jump right to police brutality and blacks. Blacks only account for 14% of the monthly drug users in the United States. The percent arrested for drug-related charges is 37. In the 1920s blacks as well as other groups of …show more content…
The Ku Klux Klan did not support the Members would stand outside of voting polls and pressure them into voting democratically. Klansmen of course still targeted blacks but their primary focus was to target Republicans. The Ku Klux Klan became a democratic group after Abraham Lincoln, a republican, freed slaves. The Klan opposed their opinion, and they thought slavery wasn’t bad and that it was okay. Klan members did not associate themselves with anyone that was a republican and they didn’t want to. Klan members would stand outside of voting polls to scare and challenge people who were voting. They struck fear into them, and only a few were brave enough to vote republican with a Klan member standing over their shoulder pressuring them. In response to the Ku Klux Klan, congress passed the Ku Klux Act that gave Ulysses S. Grant permission to suppress the Klan and establish penalties against Klansmen. This act was then said to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Reconstruction was in many ways still a war. This important struggle was waged by radical northerners who wanted to punish the South and Southerners who desperately wanted to preserve their way of
This hate group is partially responsible for the stereotyping and discrimination that occurs now towards black people today. The discrimination isn’t nearly as bad as it was in the 1920s, but it is still present.When people hear the word discrimination now their minds will probably jump right to police brutality and blacks. Blacks only account for 14% of the monthly drug users in the United States. The percent arrested for drug-related charges is 37. In the 1920s blacks as well as other groups of …show more content…
The Ku Klux Klan did not support the Members would stand outside of voting polls and pressure them into voting democratically. Klansmen of course still targeted blacks but their primary focus was to target Republicans. The Ku Klux Klan became a democratic group after Abraham Lincoln, a republican, freed slaves. The Klan opposed their opinion, and they thought slavery wasn’t bad and that it was okay. Klan members did not associate themselves with anyone that was a republican and they didn’t want to. Klan members would stand outside of voting polls to scare and challenge people who were voting. They struck fear into them, and only a few were brave enough to vote republican with a Klan member standing over their shoulder pressuring them. In response to the Ku Klux Klan, congress passed the Ku Klux Act that gave Ulysses S. Grant permission to suppress the Klan and establish penalties against Klansmen. This act was then said to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Reconstruction was in many ways still a war. This important struggle was waged by radical northerners who wanted to punish the South and Southerners who desperately wanted to preserve their way of