United States have always been a country where people went to avoid religious prosecution. This was the case for example even with the first pilgrims who went to the colonies. When there was religious prosecution in the US itself, the British Crown formed new colonies for those who were of different religious beliefs. After the US were formed, the first amendment guaranteed a right to religion and prevented the government from ever establishing its own religion or supporting any.
The event that led to this system was the civil war. People had different views than other people, and there was both rich and poor differences as well. Hope this helps!
I think it would be climatic changes. After the ice age, lands became a good ground to plant food resources. People learned through experience, observation, and survival the basic things to survive the world and finally stopped in a place and build their own homes and finally settle. They learned that hunting is not enough to sustain their needs so they studied on cultivating their lands to produce their needed food.
Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and Black Republican leaders. Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal–the reestablishment of white supremacy–fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s.
After a period of decline, white Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, African Americans and organized labor. The civil rights movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of Ku Klux Klan activity, including bombings of Black schools and churches and violence against Black and white activists in the South. From 1867 onward, Black participation in public life in the South became one of the most radical aspects of Reconstruction, as Black people won election to southern state governments and even to the U.S. Congress. For its part, the Ku Klux Klan dedicated itself to an underground campaign of violence against Republican leaders and voters (both Black and white) in an effort to reverse the policies of Radical Reconstruction and restore white supremacy in the South. They were joined in this struggle by similar organizations such as the Knights of the White Camelia (launched in Louisiana in 1867) and the White Brotherhood.
At least 10 percent of the Black legislators elected during the 1867-1868 constitutional conventions became victims of violence during Reconstruction, including seven who were killed. White Republicans (derided as “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags”) and Black institutions such as schools and churches—symbols of Black autonomy—were also targets for Klan attacks. Hope this helps!
