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After the Civil war, things were not instantly cleaned up in the United States. After the Civil War, nineteen of the twenty four Northern states did not allow blacks to vote. This showed that although the Emancipation Proclamation had been passed and the war against slavery was over, African Americans were still being looked down upon and treated differently then the whites as it will be for the next 150 years. The Ku Klux Klan, more commonly known as the KKK, began in 1866 and consisted mainly of ex-Confederate soldiers and their main goal was to resist reconstruction and intimidate the "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" (wikipedia.org). The mission of the KKK was to oppress African Americans of the South by burning buildings, acts of violence and use of terrorism. They used intimidation to force blacks back into the labor force and eventually established blacks as inferior to the whites as they were viewed before the Civil War.

The goal of the KKK was to strike fear into the blacks and black communities. This fear controlled the racial relationship between the blacks and the whites. A freed slave would have to respect a white man in fear of what may happen if it is revealed that he is an ex-slave. As it was with Jim begging Huck to not turn him in because Jim was afraid that he would be forced back into slavery. The intimidation that came from KKK forced blacks to be in constant fear of what may happen to them in case they are revealed. The Kl Klux Klan changed race relationships across the South.

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