Which of these would have been a goal of the ku klux klan in the south during reconstruction?
a) making sure reconstruction went smoothly
b) assisting the scalawags and carpetbaggers
c) ensuring that freedmen had the right to vote
d) restoring southern democrats to political power

Correct answer choice is :

D) Restoring southern Democrats to political power

Explanation:

The Ku Klux Klan usually called the KKK or simply the Klan leads to three different strange moves at various positions in time in the history of the United States. Each has promoted radical conservative conditions such as white sovereignty, white patriotism, anti-immigration and particularly in later repetitions Nordicism and anti-Catholicism. Historically, the KKK used terrorism both physical attack and crime against organizations or individuals whom they encountered.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.