Who killed Reconstruction?

North

South

People in the South were threatening people who supported equality with violence

People in the North were sick of defending racial equality and not satisfied with black people

Document B

Abram Colby's testimony to a Senate Committee in 1872

On October 29, 1869, members of the KKK kidnapped Abram Colby and beat him up.

The "Klansmen" were first-class people such as lawyers, doctors, or farmers

Document D

"On the 29th of October 1869, [the Klansmen] broke my door open. took me out of bed, took me to the woods and whipped me for three hours or more and left me for dead".

Colby was a former slave that had became part of the Georgia State Legislature

Document A

Albion Tourgee's Letter to North Carolina Republican Senator Joseph Carter Abbot

Evidence of direct actions taken by the KKK to oppose Reconstruction by assaulting people

Tourgee wrote this letter

To inform Abbott that John W. Stephens, a State Senator from Caswell, was murdered.

To tell Abbott that he might be one of the next people attacked

He was stabbed five to six times

Hanged on a hook in the Jury room of the Court House

"Another brave, honest Republican citizen has met his fate at the hands of these fiends...."

May 1870

"...I have very little doubt that I shall be one of the next victims."

To urge Congress to make changes to act against the KKK

Evidence that the KKK intended to scare people from taking action to support Reconstruction

The government had to deal with other problems that people were becoming more aware of

Document C

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