Ku Klux Klan

After the Civil War, the south of America was having problems adjusting. It was the time of reconstruction. Several former slaves and northern Americans were changing the way of life that the people of the south were used to. They were used to having slaves do all the work in their farms and at their homesteads. They were used to not paying their workers for their services. They were used to making nothing but profits on their crops and trade. But when the reconstruction was started, the white southerners would have to start paying their former slaves and other former slaves for their services. Not only did they have to pay their former slaves, but also some of them formed the Union League. In the Union League, the former slaves were taught how to shoot guns and were told to terrorize their former masters. So huge bands of former slaves would travel around the south pillaging towns, raping women, and killing the rebel southerners. So in order to cope with this, 6 men from Tenne...