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This organization has often used terrorism and violence to intimidate African Americans and other groups. The KKK was started in 1866, it was Founded by middle-class Confederate veterans.The main purpose was to resist Reconstruction, and it also focused on intimidating "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" aswell as putting down the freed slaves. The organization soon adopted violent methods.
 * __The Ku Klux Klan__**


 * __Dred Scott v. Sandford__**

Also known as the "Dred Scott Case" or the "Dred Scott Decision", it was a lawsuit decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1857 it ruled that African Americans, whether or not they were slaves, could never become citizens of the United States and that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in federal territories.