First 100 yearsBy Andrew Gomez

Minie Ball

•Soft Lead bullet•Cone Shaped with Concave bottom•Slightly smaller than barrel•When Fired it bulged at the bottom allowing it to get more spin from the rifling•Soft lead would transfer all of its energy into its impact to enable maximum

12 Pounder “Napoleon” Cannon

•Most popular Cannon due to its incredible safeness•Very reliable killing machine•In 1863 Robert E. Lee sent all of the 6-pounders of the Army of Northern Virginia to be recasted as Napoleons

Kirk Holden War

Struggle between KKK and Governer of North Carolina

KKK killed a State Senator John W. Stephens, town commissioner Wyatt Outlaw and prevented freed blacks from voting

Governer suspended Writs of Habeas Corpus hired a general to hunt down the KKK

Also imposed martial law in Caswell and Almance 100 arrest in a matter of weeks but none tried

Anti-Rent War

Revolt in New York against high collection fees for using land owned by land “barons”

Mostly sparked by Stephen III by telling his successors to collect higher rent

Many farmers on the land protested and petitioned for lower rent fees

Anti-Masonic Party

Considered first 3rd party in America Formed after dissatisfaction with the results of the

Morgan Affair in New York Tried to elect William Wirt as presidential

candidate against Andrew Jackson but only got 7 electoral votes

Dissolved shortly after its rise due to other issues including slavery

Succeeded by Whig Party

Morgan Affair

William Morgan joined a Grand Lodge of the Freemasons but was denied by prominent members of the community

Shortly afterwards went into a deal to give info on Freemasons but was sent to jail 2 times then killed or escaped

Ignited Anti-Masonic movements His wife went on later to become a member of the

LDS Church and had him baptized after he died

The First KKK

First organized in Pulaski, Tennessee 1866 They are mostly ex-Confederates Known for their strange calls and disguises Local KKK militias were typically uncontrollable to

the “Leaders” of the KKK Nationally dissolved by General Forest (Grand

Wizard of the KKK) Local KKK groups ignored him