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During the time period that Twain’s book was published many things were arising and being influenced by religion and vice versa. In 1866 a organization named the ku klux klan was formed by six confederate veterans. The six confederate veterans were very against reconstruction and in order to stop it from happening they resorted to violent methods. The organization had many goals set in mind but one was mostly to leave African Americans as slaves and not give them equal rights.The men were anit-catholicism and were not only out to get those who were black but those who went against them. The Klan, although not religious, was one of the things that Twain satirizes in the novel, not obviously, but through his characters he shows the same state of mind. The government was very against this Klan and so was stopped, but only to later return bigger and more aggressive.

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