Ku Klux Klan in Canada of the secessionist movement of the Confederate States of America and the abolition of slavery, which was the underlying cause of the war. The United States entered a period of Reconstruction, during which the infrastructure destroyed during the civil war would be rebuilt, national unity would be restored, and freed slaves were guaranteed their civil rights with the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments. In December 1865, six veterans of the Confederate Army established the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee. Presidents Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) and Andrew Johnson (1865–1869) undertook a moderate approach to Reconstruction, but after the 1866 election resulted
Casimir Pulaski Day at the Polish Museum of America where various city and state officials congregate to pay tribute to Chicago's Polish Community. The city of Chicago celebrated its first official Pulaski Day in 1986. On February 26,1986, Mayor Harold Washington introduced a resolution to designate the first Monday in March General Casimir Pulaski Day, and the City Council approved. The Chicago Public Library closes in observance of Pulaski Day but Chicago Public Schools remain open. Pulaski Day stopped being a holiday for Chicago Public Schools in 2012 as a way to increase the number of days in the school year. Although, some