The Ku Klux Klan did not want newly freed Blacks to vote because they wanted to intimidate them and keep them from positions of power. The Ku Klux Klan used many methods of terror and harassment to intimidate Blacks, but in 1870 the Enforcement Acts were enacted to prevent this.
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I think it was so the Democrats would win.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) actively undermined Congress's efforts to ensure equal rights for freedmen by employing violence, intimidation, and terror against African Americans and their allies. Through lynchings, threats, and other forms of harassment, the KKK sought to instill fear in freedmen, discouraging them from exercising their rights, such as voting and holding office. This violent backlash created an environment of oppression that hindered the implementation of Reconstruction policies aimed at promoting equality and civil rights. Ultimately, the Klan's actions contributed to the rollback of many gains achieved by freedmen during this period.
There were three Ku Klux Klan groups. Republicans were the target of the attacks of the original Ku Klux Klan which formed in 1865. Since Republicans freed the blacks from slavery, blacks wanted to vote Republican, so the use of the Klan by the Democrats kept them in fear of voting. The second and third Klans were hate groups against blacks but also Catholics and Jews.
This infamous organization is known as the Ku Klux Klan or the KKK for short.
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They used threats and violence in order to prevent African Americans from voting
-a felony to keep someone (blacks) from voting or running for office -the president could arrest people who were suspected of being in the kkk
Freed slaves were treated poorly after the Civil War. With the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, freedmen were usually terrorized. It was usually difficult for freedmen to get jobs as well.
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The terror of anti- African-American groups like the Ku Klux Klan used death, church burnings lynching and other inhumane crimes to scare Blacks from voting in the Deep South for many decades.