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While other states enacted mask laws in response to the KKK, in New York it was an attempt to maintain one of the last feudal systems in the western world. http://gothamist.com/2012/10/22/anti-mask_law_from_1845_used_to_arr.php http://gothamist.com/2012/10/22/anti-mask_law_from_1845_used... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rent_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rent_War