The Ku Klux Klan reached its peak in membership and political influence in the South and the Midwest during the 1920s. Amid the racist political climate and worsening socioeconomic conditions in many areas, some Black leaders hoped that achievement in the arts would help revolutionize race relations while enhancing Blacks’ understanding of themselves as a people. Influential African American thinkers, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, advocated Pan-Africanism, the idea that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified.
Temples? Some were used by the Egyptian Pharoahs' families to house and dwell in. They also were used for storage or to plan military strategies with their military men.
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the U.S. and France. The U.S. bought over 800,000 square miles along the Mississippi river(West) for $15 million dollars. This was so important because it expanded the U.S. almost half their size.
