The Ku Klux Klan is an American terrorist group that has plagued our country's history with its radical movements since their rise near the end of the Civil War. Although the Ku Klux Klan is made up of large numbers of people from across the country, each Klan member is united in the common belief of white supremacy. Throughout the years of its existence, the organization as a whole has maintained its dedication to the use of extreme violence along with any other means deemed necessary to spread its common belief. Although the Klan has always held the same beliefs about hatred and violence, it has fluctuated between periods of moderate activity to periods of extreme intensity and violence. A period of serious violence took place soon after the Klan's revival in 1915, and is the period on which this article will focus. During this time, the Klan had many targets for its hatred, including African Americans and their supporters, Jews, Catholics, homosexuals, and the many different immigrant groups that colored the United States. It was during this period of extreme hatred that the Ku Klux Klan worked to achieve their goals of spreading white supremacy, anti-Semitism, and anti-Catholicism, as well as restricting immigrants and developing control in government. Hatred towards African Americans has characterized every period. of the history of the Ku Klux Klan, especially after the Klan's revival in 1915. The KKK was obsessed with maintaining "racial purity" during this period, and that concept further entrenched their ideals of white supremacy. But the Klan didn't just want to maintain its own supremacy: it also wanted to keep African Americans out of what they considered "their" work. A... means of paper ...... against those he considered his enemies" (The African American Registry.) With the power they held in government, the KKK's control could be felt throughout the country The Ku Klux Klan he acted in ways he believed were necessary to maintain the lifestyle he was accustomed to in the rapidly changing United States. Their influence in government and their violent practices were their way of preserving the “traditional morality of the white, Protestant Native Americans that they displayed character, morality, Christian values, and 'pure Americanism'” (Clash of Cultures). While their actions were all coping mechanisms to this extremely uncertain time, they caused much harm and damage to the country's minority groups. Their unyielding violence and their radicalism have led them to be remembered as one of the major terrorist groups in our American history.