The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) 1865 White Supremacy group info

Question 1

When was the KKK founded?

Answer 1

1865

Question 2

How was the KKK founded?

Answer 2

-a group including many former Confederate veterans founded the first branch of the KKK as a social club in Pulaski Tennessee in 1865

Question 3

What were the members outfits like?

Answer 3

-often wore masks and dressed in the organisation’s signature long white robes and hoods

Question 4

When did the KKK usually carry out their attacks?

Answer 4

-usually carried out their attacks at night, acting on their own but in support of the common goals of defeating Radical Reconstruction and restoring white supremacy in the South

Question 5

What were the KKK’s beliefs?

Answer 5

-primary goal was the reestablishment of white supremacy->fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s

Question 6

Where did the KKK operate?

Answer 6

-extended into almost every Southern state by 1870
-most notorious zones of Klan activity was South Carolina

Question 7

What were the methods targeted at voters and Republican leaders?

Answer 7

-members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders & voters->in effort to reverse the policies of Radical Reconstruction & restore white supremacy in the South

Question 8

What achievements had African Americans made from 1867 onwards?

Answer 8

-from 1867 onwards Black participation in public life in the South became one of the most radical aspects of Reconstruction as Black people won election to Southern state governments & even US Congress

Question 9

How many Black legislators became victims of the KKK?

Answer 9

-at least 10% of the Black legislators elected during 1867-1868 constitutional conventions became victims of violence during Reconstruction->7 were killed