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Towards the end of the Civil War and the first few years after the Civil War, the United States of America faced an era of reconstruction in the South. The Civil War significantly altered the Southern way of life by eroding at the traditional plantation master-slave relationship. Not only did the Union have to readmit the seceded states, it also had to rebuild the south's devastated economy and readjust southern society from a slave society …

…Without troops to uphold the law, there was no protection against the Ku Klux Klan. With the Democratic Party's manipulations, white allies were taken away from the blacks, and stuck in a cycle of sharecropping, freedmen found their economic standing stagnant. Although they did not face the horrors and inhumanities of slavery directly, freed blacks were still subjected to much of the same discrimination, violent attacks, and oppression that they hoped to break free from.