b. The impact of Reconstruction
The reconstruction of the South lasted from 1865 to 1877. The Whites who had supported the Confederacy believed that southern politics would remain the way it had been before the war However, life under reconstruction turned out to be very different. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-reconstruction-era The white population in the former Confederate States did not welcome...