To combat Reconstruction reforms, some Southerners organized

Some white Southerners opposed Reconstruction reforms that expanded rights and political opportunities for formerly enslaved people. They organized white supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, to intimidate Black people and their supporters and undermine those reforms. The Freedmen’s Bureau, by contrast, was a federal agency that helped formerly enslaved people.

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