Americans who advocated annexation evinced a variety of motivations: desire for commercial opportunities in Asia, concern that the Filipinos were incapable of self-rule, and fear that if the United States did not take control of the islands, another power (such as Germany or Japan) might do so.
The Ku Klux Klan had branches in nearly every southern state. Own but in support of the common goals of defeating Radical Reconstruction and leaders would later attribute Ku Klux Klan violence to poorer southern whites. After 1870, Republican state governments in the South turned to Congress
Both have agency and department heads that manage duties. Both allow citizens to elect all leaders of executive departments. Both can draft and pass laws governing citizens' behavior.
