Initially, it was anticipated that the Confederacy would triumph in the Civil War due to its superiority in troop numbers and the advantage of fighting on familiar terrain. However, the Union's generals demonstrated superior strategic skills, enabling the North to capture important sites that ultimately secured their victory.
The Ku Klux Klan reemerged in the 1920s with a strong animus toward immigrants. The 1920s Klan paid less attention to the racial agenda that defined the original organization and concentrated more on promoting a vision of a "real" or "true" America. This nativist orientation most frequently aimed at recent immigrants, but it also targeted Catholics, Jews, and those opposed to Prohibition — people they believed threatened America's moral order.
