Part one of term paper
Founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tenn., by former Confederate Army officers, the was one of the most powerful groups to emerge in the Reconstruction era in an effort to prevent newly enfranchised black Southerners from putting Republicans in power in the Southern states. Led by former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest from 1867 to 1889, ...

Part two of term paper
... and warn were designed to overcome Republican majorities in their states. In most states Republican authorities were unable to suppress the violence, fearing that they would provoke outright race war if they sent their mostly black state militias against the Klan. In many areas Democratic law-enforcement officials were themselves Klan members or sympathizers. Even where local officers took action, Klan members sat on juries and acquitted accused night riders. By 1871 the violence was so serious t ...