Question 6 • (MACS) 2021 NY-US History CR Summer Quarter 1
The Ku Klux Klan formed after the Civil War to resist Reconstruction and intimidate Black people and their supporters. Some White Southerners joined because they saw it as a way to oppose Northern influence and the changes imposed during Reconstruction. It did not support the Radical Republicans or provide broad economic aid.
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