Did the Confederate loss of the US Civil War give birth to the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 1

.. Well sort of. What actually caused the American Civil War? Some people simply answer that it was a fight against slavery. While slavery did have an important part to play in the lead up to the Civil War, there were other causes that fed the fight between North and South that finally erupted into secession and Civil War with the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

Answer 2

The Confederate loss in the US Civil War meant that the South would be changed economically, socially and politically. Many former Confederates were horrified by the new environment they found themselves in. The most dramatic element was the freedom of slaves in the South. The Klan was officially a "social club" formed in Tennessee after the war by former Confederate officers. Their goal was to return all the lost power of Southern whites at the expense of freed slaves and any supporters of a democratic society. The Civil War did give birth to the KKK.