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The First KKK
The first KKK was created during the Reconstruction era to keep former slaves away from equality by acting in violence. -
Radical Republican - Freedmen's Bureau
After the Civil War, the Radical Republicans would establish the first federal social welfare service that would help former slaves transition into American society by offering services such as education and healthcare -
Knights of labor
The KoL was the first official Trade Union within the United States with demands such as a eight hour workday and cooprotization of the economy. -
Second Ku Klux Klan
The presidency of Woodrow Wilson would see the rise of the second KKK which tried to moderate itself in order to reach new members which were helped by the film "Birth of a Nation" which portrayed the Klan as heroes to millions of Americans in what is considered the first major blockbuster of the film industry -
FDR and the New Deal Democrats
Upon his election in 1932, FDR would lay out a series of economic reforms called "The New Deal". Programs such as Federal Project one offered work to starving artist and programs such as Social security to jumpstart the American economy. -
Mcarthyism
In the heat of anti-communist fever, senator Joseph McCarthy would make accusations of suspected communist in the State Department . -
The Southern Manifesto
During the Civil Rights movement, southern politicians would release a manifesto criticizing the power of the federal government because of its attempts at integration which they saw as a violation of the relationship between state and federal governments. The Manifesto also criticized government intervention in economic policies from the New Deal. -
Counter Culture/New left-Port Huron
A growing number of College Students would become disconnected by the acts of war committed by the US government and inequality in society. These changes were often demanded by either mass protest or violent actions by such groups as Students for A Democratic Society. -
The Rise of Conservatism-Election-1981
Reagan's Moral Majority was a reaction to the '60s and '70s vast extention of rights and a refounded urge to fight Communism across the world under the Reagan Doctrine. -
Unite the Right Rally
White nationalists and supremacists came together to march in a torchlight procession in Charlottesville.
