Ku+Klux+Klan

Ku Klux Klan In the decade after the Civil War (1861-65), the Ku Klux Klan used violence to prevent African Americans from exercising new rights granted to them under Reconstruction. Was the Klan: • A legitimate response to Reconstruction, which sought to overthrow the traditional Southern way of life? (PRO) • A terrorist group aimed solely at depriving African Americans of their constitutional rights? (CON)

pro: the klu klux klan was not sent to target african americans

CON;they begun as a social club for former confederate

pro: they wasnt meant to hate blacks they was just protecting the whites from angry blacks commiting crimes to southern whites

CON:Tennesseses economy depended largely on agricullture but much of the states farmland had destroyed during the war..

CON;part of the klans formation

pro: the klan was there to keep the southern way of life and the blacks were in the way

CON;u won