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The violent actions of the Ku Klux Klan were largely done for political purposes against freedmen and their white allies. By the 1880s the tone had shifted to indiscriminate lynching of blacks as a form of oppression and terror.

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Q: What was different about the terror wrought by the Ku Klux Klan and the terror of lynching that began in the 1880?
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