The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s resulted from nativism in American Society. White Americans believed their traditions, religion, and government were under attack from the rise of immigration in the 1920s. The KKK was a Confederate group of violent vigilantes with a mission to protect white supremacy from black people, Jewish people, Catholics, immigrants, and anyone who supported them. The KKK represented a romantic view of the old south, and a way to sustain the white American traditional way of life. The First Red Scare centered around America's fear of communism. It began after World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, and grew due to a number of social and political factors like labor unions, inequality, and xenophobia.