To combat Reconstruction reforms, some Southerners organized

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

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