The Ku Klux Klan is a terrorist organization that emerged in the United States at the turn of 1865 to 1866, shortly after the American Civil War. This group was created to <u>promote the ideals of white supremacism, racist ideals that promote segregation and hatred against blacks</u>. The group emerged with the intention of attacking blacks and civil rights defenders for African Americans.
The Klan, as it is called, was responsible for committing violent acts, such as burning houses inhabited by African-Americans, beatings, hangings, etc. Its members wore hoods and a white garment and had a cross as a symbol. In their meetings and attacks, they also set crosses on fire.
Klan's performance took place in three distinct phases, the third being the phase of the organization's current functioning. Klan today is a very small terrorist group. It has a few dozen cells spread throughout the American territory and a few thousand members
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my joints worked together and my leg muscles helped me from falling over. when you sit or stand you use the muscles in your legs to push up off the chair or to sit back down
The Civil War influenced the role of government in the United States because it highlighted how the national government was the sovereign power. Following efforts by states to succeed and establish their own system of government the national government of the U.S. asserted is dominance and defeated the southern belligerents, thereby reasserting its dominance over politics and government in the United States following the war.
The origins of these acts go back to the constitution where the article 4 has a clause called the fugitive slave clause which orders states to deliver up fugitives from labor (euphemism for runaway slaves) when they are requested by slaveholders.
This clause was translated into the first 1793 statute which was basically a civil statute that was not well enforced according to the southern states, thus leading to the creation of the 1850 fugitive slave act.
The 1850 act was tougher than the previous one, punishing not only runaway slaves, but also people who harbored or aided slaves in any way, with civil and criminal penalties including up to 6 months imprisonment if caught and prosecuted successfully.
There were many documented cases of people being tortured and imprisoned in south because of helping fugitives.
These acts directly violated the democracy in several ways for example:
- Slavery had been abolished in many states of the US by the time these acts were created
- They were considered by many as some species of legalized kidnapping
- They encouraged illegal abduction or arrest and sale into slavery of free black men and women denying them the fair right to trial
One clear example would be the movie "Twelve years a slave" which depicts the documented case of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was sold as a slave without proof of him being one.
Yes, because there are witnesses in the court room to hear the case before any other facts are stated, meaning: exp... Someone gets charged with theft over $1000, the come to court and show but have nobody to stick up for them such as an attorney. There are several people off to the side hearing the case, before they start saying the facts they have to hear the Defendents side first....
