Confederate veterans and former plantation owners who were negatively impacted socially, politically, and economically resented what they considered the severe and unfair restrictions of Reconstruction. The KKK formed as a secret society to terrorize African Americans, Carpetbaggers, and Scallywags into submission. It worked for the repeal of Reconstruction, and, eventually led to the Jim Crow laws passed when Reconstruction ended.
Carpetbaggers
The postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of capital: people had to devise way to operate without cash. From America A native History by George Brown Tindall 8th edition
It's diverse economy based on transportation and manufacturing boomed.
Postwar unemployment and low wages, exploited by Northern 'Carpetbaggers'.
They just desired to have the same rights and freedoms as general white Americans.
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South End Historical Society was created in 1966.
South Wales Record Society was created in 1982.
South Wales Socialist Society was created in 1911.
Royal Society of South Africa was created in 1908.
South American Mission Society was created in 1844.
South Indian Education Society was created in 1932.