The Ku Klux Klan popularly known as the KKK emerged during the 1920’s. The KKK was a secret society which then grew up to a big driving force reversing the federal government’s Reconstruction. They all were whites of middle class who were racists.
They were terrorizing the Afro-Americans, Republicans by murdering them and causing destruction to their properties. They brain washed the fellow white Americans to believe that the KKK was doing the best by conducting pageants and social gatherings. Hence it gained its utmost popularity drawing many people towards them.
I believe Join or die cartoon that drawn by Benjamin Franklin was really effective. At that time, many people were not convinced on whether they should involve in the French-Indian War or not. The cartoon managed to persuade a lot of people to join up with the Kingdom of Great Britain in order to defeat the Frenchs and the Indians
Although the land that now constitutes the United States was occupied and much affected by diverse Indian cultures over many millennia, these pre-European settlement patterns have had virtually no impact upon the contemporary nation—except locally, as in parts of New Mexico. A benign habitat permitted a huge contiguous tract of settled land to materialize across nearly all the eastern half of the United States and within substantial patches of the West. The vastness of the land, the scarcity of labour, and the abundance of migratory opportunities in a land replete with raw physical resources contributed to exceptional human mobility and a quick succession of ephemeral forms of land use and settlement. Human endeavours have greatly transformed the landscape, but such efforts have been largely destructive. Most of the pre-European landscape in the United States was so swiftly and radically altered that it is difficult
