It was created to protect ad help former slaves after the war.
Minnesota provided a large number of units in the American Civil War proportionate to its small population of approximately 170,000 in 1861-1865, with some 26,717 state volunteers being recorded, although a number of those are individuals who reenlisted in other units.
The darker side of Populism and Progressiveness
<u>Explanation:</u>
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.
United States train travel had changed dramatically by this time, since the transcontinental railroad had been completed, which stretched all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
