<span>each taking charge of their own part of Persia.</span>
The French citizens stormed the Bastille in 1789 looking for arms and ammunition they believed to be hidden there. They also hoped to free political prisoners that they believed were kept there.
Historians describe white Southerners' varied responses to emancipation and the issue of civil rights, and describe the thinking that gave rise to white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.