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Republican Rule. Ch12 Sec3. Carpetbaggers. Northerners who moved south seeking to make a profit. . Scalawags. Southerners who supported the Republicans and Reconstruction. Many had supported the Union. . Ku Klux Klan.
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Republican Rule Ch12 Sec3
Carpetbaggers • Northerners who moved south seeking to make a profit.
Scalawags • Southerners who supported the Republicans and Reconstruction. • Many had supported the Union.
Ku Klux Klan • Dec. 1865, 6 former Confederate soldiers met in Pulaski, TN to form a social club. • Wanted the club to be secret • Formed the KKK
Ku Klux Klan • Klan members started playing pranks on blacks • Pranks turned into violence • Klan sought to intimidate Republican voters • Targets were carpetbaggers, scalawags, freedmen.
Enforcement Acts • Passed by Grant & Congress to stop Klan violence. • 1st- Federal crime to interfere w/ voting. • 2nd- Federal elections put under supervision. • 3rd- KKK Act- Klan was illegal. • Very few Klan members actually convicted.