Why quit our own to Stand upon Foreign ground? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances with any portion of the foreign world.....'
-George Washington
California was to enter the Union as two states. The northern one would be a "free" state called California and the southern one would be a territory which was to immediately become a “slave” state to be called Colorado. Californians were outraged that the federal government could overrule the decision of a state.
Answer:
The KKK resurged not only targeting African Americans, but any immigrants who were in America creating more racial tensions. These tensions created a nasty election in 1928, tension from the whites in the South and the growing melting pot of the North.
Explanation:
The KKK, founded by Confederate soldiers, opposed Radical Reconstruction. They targeted Freedmen's Bureau schools as they believed African Americans should not be educated. burned the schools down and attacked and killed white teachers and black students. Targeted carpetbaggers and scalawags. They saw them all as a threat to the power of white Southerners.
